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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most Marylanders seem to back their Governor's tough-minded approach. Nowhere is support stronger than along the water. Fred Maddox, who has been fishing in the area around Shelltown since the 1930s, reaches into a desk in his seafood-company office and pulls out a grim photographic record of Pfiesteria's impact. "Here's a rockfish with its mouth all messed up," he says. "Here's a carp with lesions on its side. Here's one with its nose all messed up." The state needs to limit agricultural runoff before the problem gets any worse, Maddox says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACRE ON THE BAY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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