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Chesapeake Bay shows signs of recovery, but pollution persists

2013-01-31 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The Chesapeake Bay, North America's biggest estuary, is still ailing but making some progress as it struggles to recover from over-fishing and pollution, a partnership overseeing its revival said on Thursday. The number of juvenile crabs is the highest in two decades, rockfish are stable and last year's "dead zone," the part of the bay without enough oxygen to support life, seems to be the smallest since 1985, the Chesapeake Bay Program said in its 2011-12 "Bay Barometer." On the down side,...

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