{"id":5045,"date":"2011-11-11T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:42:48","slug":"morning-read-could-contaminated-vermont-fish-be-sent-to-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/11\/morning-read-could-contaminated-vermont-fish-be-sent-to-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Could contaminated Vermont fish be sent to North Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State and Federal officials are scrambling to figure out what to do with a major fish hatchery in Vermont that has long supplied fish for trout and salmon restoration projects from the Connecticut River to Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the Bethel Fish Hatchery sits on the White River which is now contaminated with &#8220;didymo&#8221; or &#8220;rock snot,&#8221; a kind of invasive algae that has been spreading in the Northeast.<\/p>\n<p>During the floods from tropical storm Irene, some of that river water made its way into the hatchery, possibly exposing the stock of fish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/rock-snot-fear-means-salmon-for-native-tribes\/article_19c3d46d-97f8-56ef-9212-592a3fb39fe1.html\">This from the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hatchery also contains about 434,000 lake trout destined for lakes Ontario and Erie. A separate decision about whether those fish can be safely released without spreading rock snot, or whether they will have to be disposed of, is expected later this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hatchery has already had to dispose of thousands of Atlantic salmon that had been set for release in the Connecticut River basin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/rock-snot-fear-means-salmon-for-native-tribes\/article_19c3d46d-97f8-56ef-9212-592a3fb39fe1.html\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/rock-snot-fear-means-salmon-for-native-tribes\/article_19c3d46d-97f8-56ef-9212-592a3fb39fe1.html#ixzz1dOqkFWaT\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State and Federal officials are scrambling to figure out what to do with a major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,879],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}