I have recently joined an organization whose focus it is to prevent and hold accountable the "big" polluters in baltimore harbor. I will be patrolling and taking water samples. If you want to get involved, it is called "Baltimore WaterKeepers Alliance". The national mother organization is called "WaterKeepers" and their website identifies the locat chapters. If you are interested in getting involved in a solution, well here it is. In the meantime, I'd appreciate if those who are adding to the problem in their own "small" way could please try to control themselves. Best, Bob Here is the website for those interested. http://www.waterkeeper.org/ Dr. Robert P. Pelton Associate Professor of Education Villa Julie College 1525 Greenspring Valley Road Stevenson, MD 21153 Phone: 443-334-2737 Fax: 410-486-3552 f-pelton@mail.vjc.edu >>> "Ken Ongemach" <kongemac@tampabay.rr.com> 09/20/06 12:00 PM >>> Those of us who boat in a Commercial Boat environment, in my case, Tampa Bay, watch, every day, ships constantly pumping there spaces & bilges in the boat channels & putting out as much pollution, in one day, than all the recreational boats put out in a year.. Why?, because its easy for the politicians to go after Rec. boaters, piling on regulation, after regulation, & take money from the commercial people to leave them alone... If all U people would stop bitching & put pressure on your elected officials to do something about this scandal, we wouldn't have to listen to some of U people complain about Rec. boaters...Until something is done to reign in the Commercial interests, I will continue to dump my holding tank in tide areas..and I guess, continue to hear people on this site bitch about each other.... Ken, Tampa Bay _______________________________________________ http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering To unsubscribe send email to trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.