I've been doing some research on this for an article-- spawned, incidentally, by the bass on the Potomac. The feminization of fish is widespread-- it's a big deal in the Sea of Japan and in a number of different areas in this country.

Heck, we even have that problem on the upriver bright run in the Hanford Reach, although there it's thought to be because of warmwater discharges from the reactors (and not radioactivity).

Other culprits are feedlots and commercial meat farms--chicken, pigs and beef primarily; it's enough to make you turn vegetarian.

A question I'd like to find an answer to is whether humans ingesting these girly critters (including meat-farm animals) are able to burn the hormones or whether they in turn affect the person.

Maybe that's why I've been attracted to cerise jigs lately...

Keith