Waterman contracts "fishermen's disease"
from the Alexandria Times:
Ken Smith, a leader in the fight to clean up the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, has been hospitalized with a serious vibrio infection commonly known as "fisherman's disease" and believed to be directly related to contaminated marine life and polluted water.
Smith, president of the Virginia Waterman's Association, was admitted on June 14 to Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, suffering from a high fever and a badly swollen right arm.
"This reaffirms our belief, as watermen, that the continuing degradation of the Bay and its tributaries has reached the point that it is imperative that dramatic measures must be taken to improve the estuary's water quality," Smith said June 25 from his hospital bed.
Whole thing here.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.