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Bluegills - the new canary in the coal mine
By The new canary
Published September 24, 2006
Washington, New York, San Francisco - yep, there is something in the water. Fish. Bluegills, to be precise, are aswim in the fight against terror - working, with the help of a high-tech monitoring system, to quench the thirst for safe water supplies. Seems that these cousins of the perch are bitin' - nibbling on just about anything that won't nibble on them first: aquatic vegetation, various insects, worms, bread crumbs. Living in tanks hooked to computers, the oh-so-sensitive bluegills are closely monitored. The way it's supposed to work is that when something is amiss in the water, and before the gilled guards go belly-up, the proper folks are alerted, the water tested and any trouble is headed off before it gets to the glass. Then, with any luck, we'll be telling fish stories - not horror stories about the one that got away with it. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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