Sewage plant upgrade reverses 'feminized' male fish 
By Kate Bueckert CA Source: CBC News 1/13/2017
Kate Bueckert
Male fish in the Grand River that started to produce eggs after exposure to toxins in the water made a full recovery after Kitchener, Ont. upgraded its wastewater treatment plant, a new study from the University of Waterloo has found.
In 2007, biology professor and researcher Mark Servos started to track the number of intersex male rainbow darter fish in the Grand River ahead of planned upgrades by the Region of Waterloo to the Kitchener wastewater treatment plant.

"The male fish were being feminized," Servos said of what he and his team of graduate students found between 2007 and 2012.
 

"We were actually observing that most of the fish downstream of Kitchener – the Kitchener outfall from the wastewater – were actually showing up with eggs in their male tissues or their testes. In some cases, we could open up the fish and we could actually see the eggs developing in the testes. And this was a major concern."
Not so rainbow

There were other changes to the fish as well, he noted.

 
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