Boaters Key to Keeping Mussels Out: Quagga Species Poses Risk to State's Fresh Water, Environmentalists Say
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By Denis Cuff, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 19--SOS to California boaters: Watch for a stowaway shellfish that could wreak havoc to the state's environment and economy if you let it sneak aboard.
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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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The state's latest plan to rid Lake Davis of northern pike - and protect species downstream - raises concern.
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By Candus Thomson, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 12--Assateague State Park, famous for its wild ponies, is being overrun by another small, hoofed animal that is eating the plants that hold back beach erosion: sika deer.
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Maryland's coastal bays support a wide range of aquatic life but are threatened by intense development pressures, according to the first comprehensive study of the chain of shallow bays that separate Ocean City and Assateague Island from the mainland.
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The discovery of intersex fish --   males with some female characteristics, including some carrying   eggs -- in Washington's Potomac River is raising concerns about   pollution from chemicals that can affect hormones.
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U.S. scientists are trying to determine what is causing a widespread fish kill in the Hood Canal, a fjord-like side basin of Washington State's Puget Sound.  The canal has historically been a deep and poorly flushed waterway with low dissolved oxygen concentrations.
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By Kevin Wadlow, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Sep. 13--A coalition of marine-conservation groups issued a reminder Tuesday to Florida's candidates for governor: Don't forget the ocean.
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By Patricia Daddona, The Day, New London, Conn.  Feb. 8--Connecticut will not wait for the Environmental Protection Agency  to react to a federal court ruling on power plant fish kills.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 3--For a pip-squeak of a fish, Delta smelt are becoming a whale of a threat to California's water supply.
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By Justin Miller, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 7--September 7, 2006 - Salmon anglers looking to haul in bright, fresh fish might want to think about heading to the Sacramento River.
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Bush's move to allow its use is likely to get legal review, say conservationists who claim it threatens marine life.
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By Mike Lafferty, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 12--The widely prescribed antidepressant Prozac is ending up in streams and rivers, endangering freshwater mussels, scientists said yesterday.
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By COLLEEN DISKIN and ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITERS  Seventy percent of the state's waters  including crucial sources of drinking water such as the Oradell and Wanaque reservoirs  fail to meet federal pollution standards.
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A group of Western county commissioners who have problems with the Endangered Species Act has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to have the northern snakehead, an Asian fish that's invaded the East, protected under the act.
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By Patrick Donohue, Destin Log, Fla.  May 26--Visitors unfamiliar with the often-dangerous waters of the Gulf of Mexico should really use caution before going into the water this holiday weekend.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - It's best not to get between a predator and its prey - especially when they're in the passenger seat of your golf cart. Water plant worker Mitch Walter would offer that bit of advice and bears the scratches of one who speaks from experience.