http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/16/mom-apple-pie-and-education-budgets/ Political news in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York state. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/16/mom-apple-pie-and-education-budgets/comment-page-1/#comment-32552 artisan33 Sun, 18 May 2008 05:33:58 +0000 http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/05/16/mom-apple-pie-and-education-budgets/#comment-32552 May 18th, 2008 at 12:34 am When we built the St Lawrence seaway, we doomed the Hudson shad. The shad are anadromous, meaning they spawn locally, but don’t live here. Like salmon, they go to sea to live their lives. At sea, in mid-Atlantic, the Japanese, Portugese, and Russian factory ship fleets have killed off all the larger herring species. (Yes, herring are large,.... yes, shad are smaller herring). The result? Those big fleets, of prime importance to their home nations’ GDP, now go after shad, which they used to ignore. You are not gonna stop this, without WWIII. These countries depend on this industry. Its just a fact of evolutionary life, that mankind has eaten all the big herring to extinction. Its now a sad new world, where shad are the target. So what do these shad find, when they come home to Tarrytown bay? They find the waters stripped clean by zebra mussel infestations. The zebra mussel, native to the Black Sea, was inoculated into America’s ecosystem by Russian ships blowing ballast in the St Lawrence seaway, in the 1960’s. The zebra mussel horde filter-feeds, processing all the water in the Hudson estuary in 1.4 days, according to Lamont-Doherty, stripping out ALL THE FOOD. 1.4 days. The water, stripped of all its microscopic food supplies by the zebras, affords little comfort to the few remaining shad, stumbling home from the Portugese decimation they just suffered on the high seas. So they evolve away. Its a new day, a new post-civilization estuary. I myself deeply regret it. But…. Don’t give me any lying bullshit about Indian Point hurting these fish. That would be a purely fictional case, made up to get money for Riverkeeper ( Al Matthiessen makes $298,000 per year). May 18th, 2008 at 12:34 am
When we built the St Lawrence seaway, we doomed the Hudson shad.
The shad are anadromous, meaning they spawn locally, but don’t live here. Like salmon, they go to sea to live their lives.
At sea, in mid-Atlantic, the Japanese, Portugese, and Russian factory ship fleets have killed off all the larger herring species. (Yes, herring are large,.... yes, shad are smaller herring).
The result?
Those big fleets, of prime importance to their home nations’ GDP, now go after shad, which they used to ignore. You are not gonna stop this, without WWIII. These countries depend on this industry.
Its just a fact of evolutionary life, that mankind has eaten all the big herring to extinction. Its now a sad new world, where shad are the target.
So what do these shad find, when they come home to Tarrytown bay?
They find the waters stripped clean by zebra mussel infestations. The zebra mussel, native to the Black Sea, was inoculated into America’s ecosystem by Russian ships blowing ballast in the St Lawrence seaway, in the 1960’s.
The zebra mussel horde filter-feeds, processing all the water in the Hudson estuary in 1.4 days, according to Lamont-Doherty, stripping out ALL THE FOOD.
1.4 days.
The water, stripped of all its microscopic food supplies by the zebras, affords little comfort to the few remaining shad, stumbling home from the Portugese decimation they just suffered on the high seas.
So they evolve away. Its a new day, a new post-civilization estuary.
I myself deeply regret it.
But…. Don’t give me any lying bullshit about Indian Point hurting these fish.
That would be a purely fictional case, made up to get money for Riverkeeper ( Al Matthiessen makes $298,000 per year).

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