[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.

[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.

[T'wit]

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

[Dallas59]

What does it taste like?

[Dallas59]

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

[doug from upland]

The fish would probably feel more at home in San Francisco Bay. They would build a shrine for it and hold a parade.

[taxed2death]

A fish named wanda....

[60Gunner]

Well, ya know... That close to Washing DC and all... could be a moderate.

[Vanders9]

I am absolutely disgusted by the PREJUDICES displayed by the posters on this topic. There is absolutely NO reason why "animals of an aquatic nature" should be VICTIMISED merely because they have CHOSEN a unique gender bias. I understand legislation is being prepared EVEN now to FORCE fisherpersons to include a "reasonable and equitable" proportion OF intersex fish amongst their catches, and that is a measure we would FULLY support.
We have applied to the ACLU and you CAN expect legal repercussions for YOUR actions!

Dierdre Hotair,
Chair, Gay Piscine Defence League.

PS Excuse all the CAPITALS, but the kind of people who elect ME respond best when things are SHOUTED at them.

[Tulsa Brian]

[Kevmo]

Bump for later reading

[BearCub]

That whole area is a disgusting mess. I read in another story today that half of the catfish in the Anacostia have funky tumors on them. I wouldn’t eat anything from the Chesapeake if my life depended on it.