[Occupymendocino] Deformed fish found in river by oil/tar sites

[Richard Karch]

http://thetyee.ca/News/2010/09/17/AthabascaDeformedFish/


Whitefish TOP: from the Athabasca Delta, collected by Robert Grandjambe Jr., May 2010; BOTTOM: from Lake Athabasca, collected by Ray Ladouceur, Dec. 2009. Photo credit: John Ulan, EPIC Photography.


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Armed with photos and ice-filled tubs of deformed fish from Lake Athabasca, a broad coalition of aboriginal communities, scientists, fishermen and local politicians asked the Canadian government yesterday to fund a comprehensive fish monitoring program on rivers and lakes downstream of the 
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