Hi,All!
   There was n interesting article in Wednesday's paper - which I read last night - about malathion and lobsters.  New York City sprayed malathion last fall (and may repeat it) for the mosquitoes, due to the outbreak of West Nile virus encephalitis.  Subsequently,  (not sure how much time elapsed) lobster fishermen were finding the lobsters in Long Island Sound either dead or weakened.  Research indicated a breakdown in their immune system, allowing harmful algae and bacteria to hurt them.
   It seems that decisions in our world are coming down to "damned if you do and damned if you don't."  If we don't spray, people get sick.  If we do, marine life, and the livelihood of commercial fishermen disappears.  And, the article didn't have anything to say anout the Bay Scallops.   I'm beginning to think that  our interest in preserving marine life is perhaps doomed.
Is it too late to wake people up to the status of our oceans (and fresh water, for that matter)?
   Can't someone find a pesticide that won't destroy much more than the intennded target?

Saddened,
Linda