Article: Maine Board Upholds Pesticide Limits on Blueberry Fields near Fish Farm.

Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 20--AUGUSTA, Maine--Pesticide use will still be limited near a fish hatchery in Deblois, but the Board of Pesticides Control agreed Friday to work with Jasper Wyman & Son Inc., owner of nearby blueberry fields, to make the rules less restrictive.

Wyman & Son had asked the board to repeal a critical pesticide control area, which was put in place in 1979 after an incident a few years earlier in which an insecticide application killed as many as 30,000 hatchery fish.

There have been no problems with runoff since, Travis Drake, a blueberry specialist at Wyman & Son, testified ...

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