What's the Deal??

[Silver Creek]

Anyone know what is going on? I saw this on another BB but I am completely ignorant. It is alarmist? Is is a real threat.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/s...ory?id=4975762

I definitly agree with the comment in the article about lead sinkers. There is no evidence that lead sinkers are threatening populations of water birds.

[Esopus Guy]

Lead shot is banned from sell in NY for this very reason. I have a hard time getting it sent to NY from some places.

[Silver Creek]

Hi Esopus,

I wrote some stuff on lead toxicity from fishing weights for the Wisconsin FF BB because there is a move to ban lead weights based on shoddy assumptions. I won't post it unless there is an interest by folks who want to answer critics with scientific research that shows that fishing weights are not threatening water bird populations.

[Esopus Guy]

On that note. Can any one send me some Black bird shot. Comes in tube dispensers. No carriers will send to NY. Best shot i've ever used. Impossible to get off your line.

[AaronJasper]

Silver Creek,

I would definitely like to see your scientific data on the actual effects of lead in streams. I was talking to a friend about this the other day. I can't see it having the effect to the extent that some would lead us to believe. He was also bringing up the fact the flourocarbon tippet is also harmful, when dispensed into the stream. While I do agree that to be fact, is it any worse than regular nylon? I know that nylon does break down sooner than flourocarbon. However, one can argue back with the fact does a 1,000 years more matter when we are talking about thousands of years already? I am sure that you have done a lot of research on this due to your scientific background. I would be very curious to read your opinions as to what the facts really are here.

About the "ban" on fishing.... Obama has done a lot of things that i don't think are right for this country, but when we are faced with so many dire situations both overseas and right here in our back yard that they would be wasting out countries resources on trying to ban access to sportfishing. I guess that going "green" means keeping our youth inside playing video games rather than fishing with their parents. My blood pressure was up just a tad while reading that article.

[rs0i]

I have recently visited the Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center while trying to keep a young blue heron from starving after a big storm in Western Pa. They showed me a number of eagles that they were trying to save that were dying from the effects of lead poisoning. The bald eagles were poisoned from eating fish of course.

Also, there was a special on bald eagles on PBS this year, I think it was on Nature, that documented bald eagle deaths due to lead poisoning.

Ducks and other waterfowl and especially Ospreys were ravaged in certain areas not only from DDT use, but from eating lead pellets deposited in the water from shotgun shells that didn't find their mark.

There isn't a stream, river or lake in the U.S. that doesn't have some toxins present, generally PCBs and Mercury (from Coal burning plants). Just look in the back of the PA Fishing Summary or PFBC site for the Fish Consumption Advisory.

Canada has banned lead shot and sinkers because of its documented effects on wildlife. See two sites below for documentation, and there are more. It is not hard to find.

So why add more lead to the mix when we don't have to??? Use zinc.

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7...6676--,00.html

http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/index_e.cfm

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