Originally Posted by
Hobartlemagne
Do you plan on carrying back fish that you catch?
You can't eat the fish from the water around here*. It'll be strictly catch and release for me.
* I live down-stream from Oak Ridge National Labs, the place where they built the A-bombs used in WWII. It is estimated that the Y-12 plant lost over 1,200,000 (thats right 1.2 million!) pounds of mercury into the ground, water, and air around the plant. It is so bad in some places that when they cut through the cinderblocks to make a new doorway or window in some of the old buildings at the lab, the fresh cuts "bleed" mercury.