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November 18, 2014

Experiments show rain gardens help protect fish from stormwater pollution off roadways

  • The research is being conducted by scientists with NOAA, Washington State University and U.S. Fish and Wildlife.
    • By PHUONG LE
    Associated Press

    POULSBO — Just hours into the experiment, the prognosis was grim for salmon that had been submerged in rain runoff collected from one of Seattle's busiest highways. One by one, the fish were removed from a tank filled with coffee-colored water and inspected: They were rigid. Their typically red gills were gray.

    “He's way dead,” David Baldwin, a research zoologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northwest Fisheries Science Center, declared at the four-hour mark.


     
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