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[Onslow]

Jalapeno Margarita @ El Frias, Lampassas TX.  Best damn Mexican food I've ever eaten .

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Reed Creek is becoming a lot more usable thanks to a newly established blue way

https://swvasun.com/wythe-completes-new-public-portage-parks-along-reed-creek-blueway-p12605-10.htm

The Kent Lane access is the uppermost near the I-81 Bridge (Wytheville) located at the Wythe County Joint Public Service Authority.  The water downstream is fairly low gradient, pastoral.

A second access is located just downstream of Max Meadows at Miller Portage Park has been established last week. The water downstream is more wooded, but the gradient is still low.

Carter Wayside Park has been open for a while and is more of a park than a canoe access, but legal access is access. Modifications to the steam bed took place here to accommodate the interstate.  The gradient picks up some here and at Grahams Forge. There possible take outs on private land near the New or one can paddle down to Allisonia.

I waded a little near Grahams Forge years ago, but only for a short while. I have no idea how this stream fishes. I suspect minimum flow for canoeing is 160 cfs while 300 cfs would be the upper end for float fishing which means a small window for good flows.

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Nice to see new access opening up in a world that seems to have been moving in the opposite direction for too long.

[Onslow]

Yadkin river canoe access @ Roaring River has been upgraded.

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[Woolly Bugger]

Shrimpgate: New bill to protect waterways would 'destroy' shrimp industry in North Carolina, critics warn
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Trawlers wouldn't be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina's inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal passed by the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Critics say the measure, if approved, would destroy the state's shrimping industry.

https://www.wral.com/story/shrimpgate-new-bill-to-protect-waterways-would-destroy-shrimp-industry-in-north-carolina-critics-warn/22055669/

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https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

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Shrimpgate: New bill to protect waterways would 'destroy' shrimp industry in North Carolina, critics warn
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Trawlers wouldn't be allowed to net shrimp in North Carolina's inland waters or within a half-mile of the coast under a proposal passed by the North Carolina Senate on Wednesday. Critics say the measure, if approved, would destroy the state's shrimping industry.

https://www.wral.com/story/shrimpgate-new-bill-to-protect-waterways-would-destroy-shrimp-industry-in-north-carolina-critics-warn/22055669/

A win (for now) for the shrimpers and those of us who enjoy eating wild local shrimp. 👍

"A bill to ban shrimp trawling in North Carolina's sounds died Wednesday at the hands of the state House of Representatives"

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article309400525.html#storylink=cpy

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Amelia Earhart's plane on remote Pacific island
Expedition sets to investigate mysterious 'Taraia Object' on Nikumaroro Island in search for Earhart's plane.

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Purdue University is launching a new expedition to locate Amelia Earhart's missing plane on a remote island in the South Pacific, based on evidence suggesting that it may have crashed there, according to NBC News. The university, which played a role in Earhart's 1937 flight by providing funding and employing her as a career counselor for women, is sending a team to Nikumaroro Island this November.

An expedition will investigate the mysterious "Taraia Object" on Nikumaroro Island, focusing on a "visual anomaly" in satellite imagery that may indicate the location of Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra. The object was first flagged in satellite photos following a tropical cyclone in 2015, which may have shifted sand and revealed the plane.

https://www.jpost.com/history/article-859883

video here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/researchers-announce-new-effort-find-amelia-earharts-plane-rcna216286

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"Shocking" – 27 Million Tons of Nanoplastics Discovered in the North Atlantic


A major new study by the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and Utrecht University has revealed that approximately 27 million tons of plastic, in the form of ultra-fine particles smaller than 1 micrometer, are currently floating in the North Atlantic Ocean. These findings, which provide a deeper understanding of the scale of microplastic pollution, were recently published in Nature.

"There is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in this part of the ocean than there is in larger microplastics or macroplastics floating in the Atlantic—or even across all the world's oceans," said Helge Niemann, a researcher at NIOZ and professor of geochemistry at Utrecht University. In mid-June, he was awarded a 3.5 million euro grant to expand his investigations into nanoplastics in marine environments and their long-term impacts.


https://scitechdaily.com/shocking-27-million-tons-of-nanoplastics-discovered-in-the-north-atlantic/

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The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon


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Local angler Kristoffersen, who has been fishing for wild salmon for years, has not been catching much lately.


Waist-deep in a rain-swollen river, Christer Kristoffersen casts his line, landed it gently on the water, and caught... nothing. Norway's iconic wild salmon is in dramatic decline, a victim of fish farming and climate change.

"As a kid, in the early 1980s, there was so much fish in the river, you have no idea. It was packed with sea trout and salmon. We could catch 10-15 fish in one evening," said the fly fishing enthusiast as he stood in the Stjordal river.

Despite decades of experience, the 52-year-old left the river empty-handed 10 days straight.

Wild salmon is now so rare that Norway in 2021 placed it on its red list of near-endangered species.


An ever-growing number of wild salmon, which hatch in freshwater rivers before migrating to oceans as adults, are not returning to their birthplace to spawn upstream.

They disappear at sea for as yet unknown reasons, though scientists suspect a link to climate change.

Only 323,000 wild salmon swam upstream in Norway's rivers in 2024, against one million tallied annually in the 1980s, according to the Norwegian Scientific Advisory Committee for Atlantic Salmon, an independent body set up by the Norwegian Environment Agency.

That has sparked concern among sport anglers and those who make a living from the hobby, which has been part of Norwegians' DNA ever since English aristocrats brought fly fishing to the country in the 19th century.

"Salmon fishing is very important for Norway, both for the local communities along the river valleys and for the economy and value creation," said Aksel Hembre, vice president of the Norske Lakselver association grouping those who exploit salmon rivers.

"We attract a great deal of tourism in connection with salmon fishing."


https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/living/2025/07/21/the-long-slow-death-of-norway039s-wild-salmon#goog_rewarded