Fish Warn of Water Sabotage
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Cities are using bluegills to safeguard municipal water supplies. The fish react immediately to toxins in the water, so if the aquatic denizens start to flap their gills while swimming in tanks replenished constantly with reservoir water, a warning e-mail is triggered.
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UP to 15,000 fish are to be released back in to the Tyne in Newcastle after Environment Agency officers spent the past few years tackling the the city's dreadful pollution problem.  (c) 2006 People, The; London. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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The tides of Atlantic salmon that flooded many European and North American rivers last year may signal efforts to restore the fish are working, activists say.
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By Brent Frazee, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 3--MARION, Kan. -- The minute Marc Murrell hooked something big recently at Marion Reservoir, he knew what it was.   The fish hit with a jolting strike, then immediately began to strip line off the reel. Then it really got mad.
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Assembly member Huw Lewis is demanding answers and assurances from Welsh Water following a river chemical spillage.   A death toll of around 1,000 fish was expected after three tonnes of aluminium sulphate leaked into the Taf Fechan from Pontsticill water treatment works on August 13.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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An alien species of catfish has been caught in the Delaware Raritan Canal, prompting fears among environmental officials that the voracious predator could devastate native catfish, sunfish and some sturgeon populations the way it has in southeastern states.
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Newcastle scientists urge the EU to ban fishermen catching fish which are later thrown back into the sea.
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SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.
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It looks like a clump of soiled sheep's wool, a cottony green or white mass that's turning up on rocks and river bottoms, snarling waterways. Already a scourge in New Zealand and parts of the American South and West, the aquatic algae called "rock snot" is creeping into New England, where it is turning up in pristine rivers and alarming fishermen and wildlife biologists.
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By CARL BUTLER  A CRIMEWATCH-STYLE scheme to catch poachers, fly-tippers and polluters on two of North Wales' major rivers, was launched yesterday.
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A proposed change in how the federal government measures water for fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta has environmental groups alarmed and California officials concerned about potential harm to wildlife habitat.
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By Eric Sharp, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 10--BALDWIN -- This isn't something you hear of too often: an angler complaining that the fish are too big.
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Global demand for a tiny pet fish recently found in Myanmar is already raising concerns about the survival of the species.
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By Mark Yuasa, Seattle Times  Sep. 24--Native steelhead in the Elwha River are being closely monitored to ensure they stay out of harm's way when two fish-blocking dams are torn down in 2009.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.