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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (85616)	11/16/2000 11:34:13 PM
From: wiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Bill I didn't know there was so much seepage.. though worldwide that's not alot I guess. Yeah, everyone went fishing, some contaminated fish hit the market.. prices got killed, some(pink salmon) never came back. Permits were up around 150,000 at the time of the spill.. they're 25,000 now(not all due to Exxon). Guys who were willing became "spillonaires".. Exxon payed good contracts to anyone with a boat for clean-up.. 3000 a day. A friend of mine started making oil booms in his shop, made 500,000 in the summer... I like fishing, and stayed away from it all.. Seal over population?? We have sea otters. After the spill, they did a breading project. For some unknown reason they let a bunch go in Cook Inlet.. there was oil in Cook Inlet, but not that much. The otters are so over populated now they can be found 20 miles from shore in the middle of the inlet.. it's deep there, I don't know how they are feeding. But they are pretty much wiping out all the crab, shell fish.. etc. they are pretty efficient. There was close to a 1000 miles of jagged coastline effected. It's recovered remarkably well.. though the birds haven't come back as strong. Fish populations in Alaska are very healthy, it's the farm fish killing us now. thanks for those facts,, wizzz