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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '1999-12-23T03:02:49'
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title: I was reading this CNN
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I was reading [this CNN article](http://www.cnn.com/1999/NATURE/12/21/floyd.fish.ap/index.html) about the long-term environmental damage in North Carolina due to hurricane Floyd. Nice and lengthy for a CNN article, and near the bottom I ran into the following quote: "_Crowder said almost all the menhaden caught in sample trawls recently have shown signs of disease. Also affected are other species, including hardier fish such as weakfish._ " Hardier fish such as weakfish? Is this for real, or did someone slip that in there to see if we were really reading?