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Study: Male bass in many U.S. rivers feminized

One out of five male black bass in American river basins have egg cells growing inside their sexual organs, a sign of how widespread fish feminizing has become. picked by proverb 3 months ago

tags bass fish study male rivers feminized

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19	proverb

3 months ago

First our young boys and now our fish! I will not stand for this! Oh the Humanity!

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24	JoshSF49

3 months ago

Well that's definitely interesting.

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3	crazypan...

3 months ago

damnit. it's all kanye's fault, why does he have to be such a gay fish

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22	PulsisX

3 months ago

These gay fish are destroying the sanctity of fish fries!

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T1000

3 months ago

They're not gay, they're mutated (really un-politically correct statement right there haha).

I think there are some plastics that mimic estrogen when they decompose as well.

I have a hunch, not much to it really, that this is affecting humans as well.

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33	kerobero...

3 months ago

Hinck said black bass seem to be more prone to the problem, but researchers do not know why.

I know why... wanna know why? Because:

The fish most feminized are two of the most sought-after freshwater sport fish: the largemouth and smallmouth, which are part of the black bass family.

Overfishing leads to species extinction...

From Wikipedia:

Sport fishers, even if they did not eat their catch, almost always killed them to bring them to shore to be weighed or for preservation as trophies.

While some of this may still be going on, there are:

Also from Wikipedia:

In order to protect recreational fisheries[13] sport fishermen now often catch and release, and sometimes tag and release, which involves fitting the fish with identity tags, recording vital statistics, and sending a record to a government agency.

And while the birth-control hormones being flush into toilets and ending in rivers is an explanation (which I doubt; any city with a sewage treatment plant will clean up and purify the water before it is usable again), it is by no means the only explanation...

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36	TraumaMa...

3 months ago

Hey Proverb, welcome back!!

It's been two years!! I've been wondering about you!

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12	lilyang

3 months ago

Now how can we blame this on Obama?

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