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Article: BEWARE OF `FLYING' FISH.(SPORTS)(OUTDOORS)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- July 2, 2003
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Byline: Tim Eisele
COLUMBIA, MO. -- Water skiers have to watch for "flying fish" these days in the Missouri River.
The reason is that people can get seriously hurt. Duane Chapman, research fishery biologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey in Columbia, told reporters at the 2003 Outdoor Writers Association of America annual meeting here that, "You can't water ski on the Missouri River anymore, because you could get hurt."
Chapman, who conducts fishery surveys on the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, said he now puts carp guards on his boat so that the fish will hit the rails or nets rather than hitting people in the boat.
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