Give a Holler to salmon!

Since I've been reading "Song for the Blue Ocean", I learned a great deal about salmon. So when I heard that west coast American farmers will hopefully be restricted in using 3 particular pesticides near the coastlines, all in the hope of saving the salmon, I was very happy.

"Under the rules, the pesticides couldn't be used within 500 feet (152 metres) of streams that carry salmon. Crop dusters would have to stay even farther away, and farmers using the pesticides would have to leave 20-foot strips of land uncultivated along drainage ditches and streams that are home to the fish."

But I guess I shouldn't celebrate just yet because "the new restrictions, triggered by an environmental lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act, won't be implemented right away. And the Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates pesticides and would put the restrictions on product labels, could try to devise a different approach."

Here's to hoping that the U.S will make the right choice.