Sam Rosado has lived in the industrial area of Southwest Detroit for 16 years. Fishing from the shore where the Detroit River meets the Rouge River, across from piles of petroleum coke, coal and slag on Zug Island, he says he won’t eat the fish he catches and does it just for fun. Casting out his line he adds, “I pulled some fish out of here and they don’t look right.”

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