What the heck? Sewage-fertilizer helps fish (Rhode Island)

[Brian.Pearson]

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – January 19, 2009 – While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s.
The surprising cause of this expansion, which followed a collapse of the fishery after completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1965, is run-off of fertilizers and sewage discharges in the region, according to a researcher at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.