Intersex sunfish found in Potomac basin (third species found with abnormalities)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/23/07 | David Dishneau - ap

[television is just wrong]

weird.

[TADSLOS]

[Army Air Corps]

The Hillary Fish

[capt. norm]

If Barney Frank lived near there I would have a possible answer for them.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .excessive nutrients from human waste . . .]

Apparently Teddy Kennedy has been getting drunk and falling off his yacht again into the Potomac.

[Army Air Corps]

That is sooooo wrong, but sooo funny.

[Rudder]

I just couldn't resist.

[lmr]

You owe me a keyboard! LMAO!

[ApplegateRanch]

Sheepshead & some other fish are known to change their sex based, at least in part, upon age.

Some critters are known to switch sex, IIRC, based on environmental/population stresses.

What's the chance that this is a 'normal' response to fish in a marginal environment, that has started to tip slightly in favor of a sex change for them?

[wildehunt]

increased aquatic levels of natural and synthetic hormones, such as those in birth-control pills, which often aren't removed by wastewater treatment plants, Blazer said.

Johns Hopkins received a three-year $525,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to study pharmaceuticals and antiseptics in drinking water, sewage treatment plants and coastal waters in 2002.

They should soon be due to present an information return on that investment.

[JSteff]

"Intersex fish possess both male and female characteristics. For example, some male fish have been found with immature eggs in their testes. "

The dream of all gay red sunfish? If it is suspected in the water Baltimore may become the next san francisco.

[Atchafalaya]

LMAO, too good!!!

[sine_nomine]

An earthworm has both sexes. They make an eleven and each one fertilizes the other.

God can do whatever He wants. Deal with it.

[T'wit]

I do not worry nearly as much about the fish as about bureaucrats who investigate fish testicles.

[lesser_satan]

ROTFLMAO!!!

[Dallas59]

What does it taste like?

[Dallas59]

...or better yet...is it Democrat or Republican?

[shempy]

The Hillary Fish

Now that is just unfair!

Hillary does NOT have eggs in her testes.