In November of 2002 the Seattle Post-Intelligencer completed a six-month investigation into the ecological health of the Puget Sound. They published their findings in a series of articles from November 18-22, outlining the ways in which recent efforts to curtail dumping and pollution had failed to negate decades of human-caused damage to sea life and the marine environment.
In this image, state workers sort through fish just netted from south Puget Sound as part of a program to monitor pollutants in fish and marine mammals.
Caption by Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff. Photograph published with article: "Area's defining waterway is a cesspool of pollution" by Robert McClure, Lisa Stiffler and Lise Olsen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 18, 2002, pp.1, 6-8.
Additional Information: Metadata created as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, 2000.107.20021101.CD01.004, photo by Paul Joseph Brown
