Baby fish in polluted San Francisco estuary waters are stunted and deformed

Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 19:42 in Earth & Climate

Striped bass in the San Francisco Estuary are contaminated before birth with a toxic mix of pesticides, industrial chemicals and flame retardants that their mothers acquire from estuary waters and food sources and pass on to their eggs, say UC Davis researchers.

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