Pesticide Blamed for LI Sound Lobster Kill
(Overlay) All-and-stick model of the methoprene molecule. (Wikipedia)
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CTPost.com: Long Island Sound lobster fishers, grappling with the 12th year of a tragic die-off that threatens the livelihood of the few left in the industry, asked state lawmakers on Wednesday to persuade neighboring New York to change the chemical it uses to attack mosquitoes.
They are convinced that the pesticide methoprene, which is put in New York storm sewer catch basins to kill mosquitoes that may carry the West Nile virus, is responsible for a late-summer lobster die-off in the western section of the Sound following the rains of Tropical Storm Irene.
“New York is the one at fault,” said Roger Frate, a Darien seafood merchant and lobsterman. “This is what we know.”
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