Saturday, November 12, 2011

'Rock snot' fear means salmon for native tribes (AP)

FILE - In this July 27, 2007 file photo Mary Russ, executive director of the White River Partnership, holds a rock covered with the aquatic algae  Didymosphenia geminata -- known as didymo, or rock snot -- in the White River in Stockbridge, Vt.  After floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene contaminated rearing tanks at the White River National Fish Hatchery in Bethel, Vt., in August 2011, biologists are trying to determine if almost half a million fish, destined for Lake Ontario and the Connecticut River, need to be destroyed if they are found to be carrying the invasive algae.  (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)AP - Fear that an invasive algae species known as "rock snot" might have contaminated a Vermont fish hatchery has prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to donate thousands of Atlantic salmon to native American tribes in the Northeast to prevent a possible spread of the specimen.


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