Quote Originally Posted by kyfanatic View Post
My point is everybody loves to blame those of us who raise food to eat for the masses,but nobody takles into account the massive pollution from suburbia and urban areas.We had fish when it was farmland,now there isn't any.
Yeah...the runoff of fetilizer and pesticides from farms can be bad, but I'm not sure it compares to all the stuff from ultra-green lawns, plus motor oil and whatnot, that comes out of a typica subdivision. I also wonder about the tons of road salt from icy winters. I'd hate to be a fish on the receiving end of any of it.

It seems to me that, more and more, communities are establishing green buffer zones around creeks and rivers. All those grassy flood basins that I'm seeing in neighborhoods, and intentional green areas left undeveloped, seem like a fantastic idea.

It seems to me that over the last couple of decades, there have been terrific improvements in how people look at protecting water bodies from these sorts of pollutions. I hope the degradation in water quality continues to be reversed.