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For the Love of the Fish  Rich Greenough has been a full-time charter captain on Lake Champlain for almost thirty years.  He knows where and when the fish will bite, and for a fee he’ll take you out there and share his secrets.

Rich is selling his operation this year and retiring, but that doesn’t mean his days on the water are over.  If anything, he’ll have more time to devote to controlling the invasive sea lamprey and cormorant that devastate the fishery.  He works with groups on both the state and federal level.

Here’s Rich’s problem.  In order to deal with these invasive species, he wants to use lampricide and legalize cormorant hunting.  This puts him at odds with environmental groups whose methods are, shall we say, a little more benign.  How does he influence the policy makers?  That’s a secret he won’t share.

This piece aired on North Country Public Radio on September 30, 2010.