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		<title>Connecticut River special: “Season of Secrets”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does the Connecticut River and fish passage at Turners Falls look like without Northfield Mountain pumped storage effecting river flows and levels?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/08/04/what-does-the-connecticut-river-and-fish-passage-at-turners-falls-look-like-without-northfield-mountain-pumped-storage-effecting-river-flows-and-levels/</link>
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		<title>Fishway Lock Outs: three dams by bike on the May full moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These folks don’t understand they are not looking at the Connecticut River, just some of its water.  That water is pushed through here in generating pulses from the company’s upstream pumped storage plant, and for the powerhouse adjacent, as well as to feed the turbines at its Cabot Station plant downstream.  What they are seeing is about money and power.  The river and fish are peripheral considerations here.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/06/11/fishway-lock-outs-three-dams-by-bike-on-the-may-full-moon/</link>
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		<title>The Holyoke Fish Lift: 55 years and just one success&#8211;a walk-through visit on www.billdwightshow.com (podcast); two public CRASC meetings in June; for the birds—“Sitting Down with Nighthawks” in the current Bird Watcher’s Digest, by Karl Meyer</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Out of 24 positions on the CRASC Board and Tech Committee, not one is held by a woman.  There has not been a public representative on the CRASC Board in Massachusetts in nearly three years.  Sound fishy?"

"This is a river system that is seeing its runs of federal trust fish wash away.  It suffers desperately from waste, dishonesty, a lack of common sense science, and a dearth of public information and agency oversight."



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		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/06/08/the-holyoke-fish-lift-55-years-and-just-one-success-a-walk-through-visit-on-www-billdwightshow-com-podcast-two-public-crasc-meetings-in-june-for-the-birds%e2%80%94%e2%80%9csitting-down-with-nigh/</link>
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		<title>The shad abattoir: the final leg home, May 5th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rainbow Dam Fishway is a fish killer, a veritable abattoir for American shad.  It is so steep, and the slots so narrow, that the fish actually die trying to ascend.

Why have real, self-sustaining populations of native fish when you can have hatcheries instead?   ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/06/06/the-shad-abattoir-the-final-leg-home-may-5th/</link>
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		<title>Rundown on the run&#8211;three fishways by bicycle: Holyoke, Turners Falls, and Vernon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s such a poorly designed system--built for the non-existent salmon here (less than 10 salmon came through Turners in 2009), that it’s a bit like water boarding for American shad.  The shad deplete all their oxygen and drift back downstream, spent; exhausted. 

The tens of thousands of shad that reach Turners Falls will try to pass here for days--sometimes weeks, lingering in pools where the pulsing currents of the ladders exhaust them, pushing their oxygen-deprived organs to the limits.  Only the toughest and the luckiest of the lucky make it through Turners Falls.

Reading the Turners Falls tally-board for fish the guides have spotted here is a very short story: American shad today, 28; for the season, 82; sea lamprey today, 12; for the season 23.  Eighty-two shad does not a “fish run” make.  

So, lamprey--that’s one down!  Now, how about a lift for those shad and herring??    ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/24/rundown-on-the-run-three-fishways-by-bicycle-holyoke-turners-falls-and-vernon/</link>
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		<title>The myth of Atlantic salmon, Daily Hampshire Gazette, OpEd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic Salmon Egg Rearing Program offers a tidy niche for teachers, incorporating basic science principals, but its message is self-promotion, author Karl Meyer writes, "The science and math paints a stilted river picture—salmon, and more salmon."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/23/the-myth-of-atlantic-salmon-daily-hampshire-gazette-oped/</link>
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		<title>Long Island Sound to Simsbury, CT and the Farmington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bleached and blown-out trunks of hemlock lay quietly scattered up the hillside, as a once-thick forest duff dries to a dusty consistency in May light...  Just across the river, tons of deadly nuclear waste containers sit—stored, and largely forgotten by the public, at the site of a nuclear plant that closed after nearly exposing its core through lax safety checks some 15 years back.  There’s no road sign for that either.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/20/long-island-sound-to-simsbury-ct-and-the-farmington/</link>
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		<title>A day at the mouth: Old Saybrook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“We go out two hours after mean low-tide.  Tonight, that would be about 11.”  Then he add that there are still 5 – 6 people that gill-net shad here and across in Old Lyme, plus one up by Haddam.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/13/a-day-at-the-mouth-old-saybrook/</link>
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		<title>Enfield to the Sound</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It astonishes me at the time how much of our wealth is derived from the implementation of industry in service to warfare.  What a sad use of the earth’s good soil.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/11/enfield-to-the-sound/</link>
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		<title>A word from the mouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ospreys were calling over the North Cove here an hour ago.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.karlmeyerwriting.com/blog/2010/05/03/a-word-from-the-mouth/</link>
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