Paris: Fishing in the Seine for... salmon?(Environment)

Manila Bulletin | August 12, 2009 | Copyright

PARIS, August 11, 2009 (AFP) - After an absence of nearly a century, Atlantic salmon have returned to France's Seine River, with hundreds swimming past the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame cathedral this year alone, researchers told AFP.The reappearance of salmon and other species chased from these waters by dams and pollution is all the more remarkable because no efforts have been made to reintroduce them. They came back on their own."There are more and more fish swimming up the Seine," said Bernard Breton, a top official at France's National Federation for Fishing."This year the ...

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