James Owen

James Owen has been a journalist for 17 years, first for national and regional newspapers in the U.K., then as a freelance writer and book author specializing in science and natural history. He is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden.

What Happened to the Trout?

Posted by James Owen in Water Currents on March 26, 2012
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By James Owen If your canary in the mineshaft sprouts an extra head, you might think there’s a problem. But not, apparently, if you’re the J. R. Simplot Company. The canary in its case was the brown trout, and its mineshaft, the Smoky Canyon phosphate mine in southern Idaho. As revealed last month in The…