What’s happening to German eelpout?

From Hamburg, Germany, at a meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry–Europe

Along heavily polluted regions of Germany’s Baltic coast, populations of an eel-like fish have a high incidence of potentially serious reproductive anomalies, according to a new study. Some 10 to 25 percent of male eelpout (Zoarces viviparous) are intersex, which means they have characteristics of both genders.