Oil pollution from boats limited spawning of millions of False Creek Herring, say BC researchers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Vancouver Sun] by Matthew Robinson - September 30, 2014
This year, for the first time in decades, millions of herring spawned in False Creek.
An estimated 10 to 20 million herring - a foundation food for salmon and whales - survived as eggs on a synthetic stand-in for natural eelgrass habitat that Jonn Matsen and the Squamish Streamkeepers developed and wrapped around creosote-soaked pilings in Vancouver's waters.
But an equal number of eggs died before they could hatch, apparently poisoned by the same type of persistent pollutants that a new study out of the University of Calgary found to be a larger threat to the Pacific coast than oil tankers and cargo ships...
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