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Closing the Sluices. Over the years, the pollution has taken an ecological as well as esthetic toll. The Rhine salmon, once a river staple, has long since disappeared from the murky waters, as has the sturgeon. The hardy varieties of fish that remain-bream, carp, perch and pike-cannot be sold because the river's high phenol content makes them smell and taste foul. Last week even the survivors were imperiled. Millions of dead fish floated to the surface, victims of the worst case of pollution in the river's history...
Reacting to the growing pressure for stricter enforcement, the Food and Drug Administration last month seized 28,150 pounds of Lake Michigan coho salmon infected by pesticide residue. But no one knows how much of the fish plucked from U.S. lakes daily by commercial and sport fishermen is contaminated. A classic example is Clear Lake, Calif., where DDT (at the minuscule proportion of two one-hundredths of a part per million parts of water) was used to kill off a troublesome, lake-hatching insect. As a result, plankton accumulated DDT residues at five parts per million; fatty tissue of fish...
Springfield jumped to an early lead in the first inning when second baseman Bill Porter beat out a grounder to short and was advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. John Salmon drove the run in with a single through the pitcher's mound...
...Egyptian bust, a gem-encrusted crown, raised to a magical, almost religious level by his extraordinarily vibrant brushwork and imaginative palette. "I'm withdrawing a bit," he says, "searching for what archaeologists call 'a find,' for the jewels we can dig out of us." His Salmon is such a precious relic-a dying fish preserved by the artist's reverent brush as a glowing emblem of life...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). The annual spawning run of salmon fighting their way up Alaskan rivers is detailed in "The Return of the Salmon...