Page 2 is concerned about water quality.

9/17/2008 2:46:26 PM

I live on the river between New Bern and Havelock. Lived there all my life, my parents used to commercial fish, crab, and shrimp, set gill nets, etc. We still do all those, but only for enough to feed our household. I ski in it every year, swim in it, spend a good 50% of my time on it during the summer. My Dad was born and raised on the river and he's still livin. Basically, when you have a big fish kill, don't get in the water any more than you have to. Don't eat fish or anything else for at least a few days. Anybody who knows the water can tell you when it has cleared up and looks ok. In the summer when you haven't had much rain, the salinity goes way up and you can get bull sharks and cownose rays in there. The last ~2 years or so in the summer, my biggest concern about being in/around the water close to shore has been rays. We have had a fuckton of them. You don't want to mess with them. Going to the ER to get a three inch barb pulled out of you is not a cakewalk (my Dad's had that done). The Trent is actually pretty nasty. Look at the number of hog farms on it versus on the Neuse in our area.

9/17/2008 3:35:43 PM