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Common bottlenose dolphins are spotted in the Potomac River, seen as far from the Atlantic Ocean as the U.S. 301 Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge.

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More to Do to Clean Up the Potomac River

Stormwater runoff from urban and suburban areas is the major, fastest-growing culprit today polluting the Potomac River.

On April 9, Connor Lynch, an angler fishing on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Cove, hooked and released a shortnose sturgeon, a fish not seen in the river since 2007.

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