This may change your diet on fish from the Columbia River......
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/33221_merc30.shtml

[ 07-30-2001: Message edited by: Eddie L ]

Eddie L

Did you know that the Cowlitz River is rated as one off the highest rivers in the state for Arsenic levels? Check it out at http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2001news/2001-071.html

Cowlitzfisherman

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????

Cowlitzfisherman,
While I knew about the contamination of Roosevelt Lake, the problems with some of the other rivers is kind of a shocker. Any idea where mercury would find its way into the Cowlitz? I hear that Weyerhaeuser has offered a site on Smith Island in the mouth of the Snohomish River as a hazardous waste dump. Do you think we're ever going to learn?