Factoid/2004/07/12
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Female Hormones in Sewage Changing the Sex of Fish
- "British fish are changing sex due to sewage in rivers that contains large amounts of female hormones, the Environment Agency says. In a report on the latest stage of 20 years of research last week, it said that in a survey of 1,500 fish at 50 locations, one-third of the males showed female characteristics." - excerpt from the Planet Ark article at http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/25947/story.htm
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