Good news: salmon in the Seine

So this is really, truly outside of the Clean Water West region, but I'll take good news where I can get it. I'm at the Center for Watershed Protection's Watershed Institute this week, and a participant mentioned this story during a Q and A session. It was too good not to dig up for my own happiness, so I'm sharing it here. In short, Atlantic salmon are making a comeback in the Seine – the river that flows right through Paris.

As the Planet Ark's Salmon Return to Cleaner Paris River story explains, the Seine has faced all the troubles so familiar to us here in the West, and yet the river and its fish are making a comeback:

As with so many of the great rivers of the U.S., the Seine's fishery was gradually devastated by the construction of dams and the pollution by the chemical industry, farming, industrial waste and sewage, which lead to the extinction of salmon in the Seine between the two world wars. The signal that the massive restoration efforts to clean the river by reducing discharges occurred in 2009 when angler caught a six kilogram (13 pound) Atlantic salmon just downstream from Paris.

See also: the Daily Galaxy's Hemingway's Dream: Flyfishing in Paris

Just a hopeful note for a Wednesday morning…