Factoid/2009/03/03
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Fish Farms in Coastal Waters May Pollute Even More Than Previously Thought
- "It has been widely assumed that the effluent from [fish farming] pens would be benignly diluted by the sea if the pens were kept a reasonable distance from shore. But early results from a new Stanford computer simulation based on sophisticated fluid dynamics show that the icky stuff from the pens will travel farther, and in higher concentrations, than had been generally assumed." - excerpt from this Underwater Times article.
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