Ocean waste hits home: Plastic-filled fish guts ruins Chilliwack man's catch

Environmental | 206911 hits | Feb 20 7:08 am | Posted by: DrCaleb

A Chilliwack fisherman thought the steelhead he hooked last week on the Vedder River would make a fine supper before he cut it open to find its body stuffed with garbage. Jordan Butt, 32, said he felt “disgusted” by what he found Feb. 13: Shards of blue,

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by Hyack
Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:59 pm
Lovely, just f*cken lovely....
by sandorski
Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:54 pm
Nasty.
by raydan
Sat Feb 21, 2015 12:38 am
Just the price of doing business.
by Thanos
Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:48 am
Give it another hundred years. 90% of the fish, and of the other animals too, are going to be gone. And from orbit the planet will look more like a tumour breathing through a smokestack than anything else. Hey, let's go colonize other living planets elsewhere so we can do the same thing all over again! There might be lots of money to be made!
by Yogi
Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:56 pm
“Its very troubling for a couple of reasons,” said Ross, who also suspects the steelhead ingested the plastic in the ocean.

Get real Ross! This particular salmon as well as a few of his budies were 'rogue fish'. They sneak ashore at night and root through peoples garbage cans for small pieces of plastic they can eat.

This sort of shit is going to continue long after EVERY seaside community quits using the oceans as septic tanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (22. I'm going for a new record)

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