TheState.com – From Staff and Wire Reports
Washington – Some male fish in parts of the Pee Dee are developing female characteristics, possibly because they’re being exposed to birth control pills and hormone treatments that are seeping into U.S. waterways.
While the problem has been found in other parts of the country, the Southeast – especially the Pee Dee River basin in North and South Carolina – had the highest rates of male fish with female characteristics, federal researchers have found.