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Mutant Fish Thriving In Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts’ New Bedford Harbor is one of the country’s most polluted waterways. For 40 years, nearby factories and shipping vessels have been dumping pollution into it, and it’s so grimy that there’s been a ban on fishing in much of the area since 1979. So why is one species of fish thriving there?
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, two manufacturing plants near the harbor spent much of mid-20th century improperly dumping polychlorinated biphenyls (coolant fluids used in motor production) and heavy metals into the harbor, contaminating sediment as far as six miles away. The EPA has been working on cleaning up the harbor since 1982, but it remains a highly toxic area.
This whole story just disgusts me. Its all gross. Polluted water, mutant fish, industry, greed, etc. it is all just disgusting. I use to have a friend that lives in New Bedford and she use to always tell me how crappy that city is but I didn’t think it was THAT crappy.
