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ON ANY GIVEN DAY, STRAIGHT-LINE CANALS flanking narrow roads that thread the Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park host scores of pole fishers.
Shore-bound or boat-mounted, they hoist both pleasure and supper from dark waters often visibly pocked with alligators and adorned with attendant wading birds. Human and other animals have foraged here through 5,000 years of seasons wet and dry, hunting and fishing in a slow-motion water world sliding eternally south, from the big fresh splash of Lake Okeechobee to the fecund salt shallows of Florida Bay.
But nowadays, if they regularly eat what they catch often the case with people and always the case with birds and beasts they risk mercury poisoning.
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