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To: combjelly who wrote (442810)	12/27/2008 1:55:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575848

But, the fish were just a symptom. The Neches flows into Sabine Lake. Which is one of the major estuaries on the Texas Gulf Coast. That anoxic water(that means water with little or no oxygen) along with its load of organics flowed into the marshes there. Now marshes are the primary breeding grounds for the fish and other marine organisms in the Gulf. That directly impacted the yield of oysters, shrimp, fish and crabs in the area. Because, you see, many of the marine fauna of economic significance do not breed in the open ocean, but do so in the marshes. Which are already under pressure because people like to plant houses on them. So there was a significant economic impact. There are so many varied ways that humans alter the ecology. For an example, Saddam Hussein was pissed at the people who occupied a huge estuary that flowed into the Persian Gulf. So he had it drained.......most of the area turned into desert and many people lost their livelihood fishing and the like in the estuary. Now they are trying to bring a portion of it back with mixed results. Arbitrary stuff like that happens all the time. Whole forests have been cut down to build cities with little thought of the impact. There is enough of us on this planet that this kind of crap is done frequently over and over again. To think it has no impact is to be in significant denial.