Before you sink your teeth into that rockfish you caught off the Santa Monica Pier, you might want to read this report about the ill effects DDT and other pollutants in the Bay are having on the local fish population.

Seems the chemical soup that upstanding corporate citizens like the Montrose Chemical Corp. and Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. dumped into the ocean over preceding decades has led to male fish developing female reproductive tissue.

Of course, sexual "flexibility" is nothing new in L.A., but there's something creepy about the weird science, better-living-through-chemicals-gone-horribly-awry aspect of this story.  ¶ 12:49 PM