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Lead poisoning deaths up in New Hampshire loons despite law
By Michael Casey November 24
CONCORD, N.H. — More than a year after New Hampshire passed one of the nation’s toughest bans on using lead fishing tackle, loons are still dying from ingesting fishing weights and lures.