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The People Will Keep Fishing, Despite Forever Chemicals in the Fish

Fishermen at Oyster Pier this June in south San Francisco. (Jillian Magtoto) Lifelong San José resident Apollo-Genesis Braddock-Layton has fished the Pacific Coast’s shore for as long as he can remember—catching horseshoe crabs, smelt, and stingrays while listening to his grandfather’s stories of fishing in the Philippines. “That’s how he had to feed his family,” […]

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