Joke time ...........

[Chinacat]

I agree with what Scupper said earlier that if we don't address what is going on on land, the water doesn't stand a chance.

I'm not sure if it's a county, town, or state sponsored program but on the east end they were giving grants to encourage homeowners to replace their outdated cesspools with state of the art systems that would significantly lower nitrogen leaching that eventually makes it into groundwater and into the bays.

In a blatantly shortsighted attention grab, the bozo that's the suffolk county comptroller and wants to be the next suffolk county executive decides that the grant money is taxable and now those folks that took advantage of the program are getting screwed for trying to do something good and now everybody else is afraid to take part of the program. The technology is out there to make a difference but its getting suppressed.

In keeping with the original topic of the thread, that is JOKE TIME

 

[Capt13]

Doesn't fecundity decrease with the age of every living thing ?

 

[Chinacat]

Doesn't fecundity decrease with the age of every living thing ?

Prolly for most of us around here

 

[Roccus7]

Doesn't fecundity decrease with the age of every living thing ?

To an extent yes, but there are exceptions like old cow bass dumping more eggs per pound than younger fish.

Problem here was that was one stated reason why chowder clams can't repopulate an area without any proof that loss of fecundity was a reason for the failure in depopulation. I'm not debating about the futility of NY's proposed plan, just not agreeing for one of the reasons stated as a cause for the futility. It may be correct or not, just can't find a citation in the literature and was hoping somebody could cite one so I could read up on it

 

[george]

Great thread guys. And just when I thought I knew it all