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From: George Myers <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Feb 18, 2006 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: Rock Roller Dams
To: Tim Thompson <[log in to unmask]>


More "fish" story

The Atlantic salmon are still quite important in our border trade
between New Brunswick, Canada and the U.S. (also in geomatics, new
computer science of "maps") as they attract a large group of fisherman
there. In Maine some of the dams were taken down, as you stated, one
blown up by the U.S. Air Force. The former Secretary of the Interior
on behalf of others collections, it was reported, paid a sizable
amount of money to Greenlanders not to fish the salmon, to make them
"re-appear" in the U.S. I wonder if this was some sort of "fish-gate"
that happened while he was in office.

On a brighter note its reported that Atlantic sturgeon are returning
to the Hudson River and oysters are starting to return, once
everywhere apparently, found almost always in an histroical
archaeology excavations in and around New York City. One of the first
official "city dumps" was of oyster shells in the harbor. On the
Hudson River at Verplank, NY, where nearby, thousands of troops
crossed the river to march on to Virginia to defeat General
Cornwallis, ending the American Revolutionary War, it was said that
many of the brickyard workers enjoyed the varieties of fish that were
had there in the "shad-a-muc" the river that flows both ways. Sturgeon
have boney carapace like turtles on their front 1/3 and I've found
some carapace once in a scallop midden in Mt. Sinai Harbor, NY on Long
Island during field-school. Sturgeon were also in the St. Lawrence
River too, some over ten feet long (20th c. photos in the museum in
Messina, NY near Cornwall, Ontario) recorded before the St. Lawrence
Seaway was built. Incidently, there are/were stone "river control
features" in the St. Lawrence river that no one can or has dated
(though Parks Canada thinks they're early 18th century), early
"hydraulic engineering" in parts, an almost impassable river in
places, at one time, where in a nearby quarry in NY State, whale
fossils were recently found.

George Myers