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Energy Net on 17 Aug 09Employees of Environmental Assessment Services are living the good life this summer, getting paid to go fishing. To make final plans for the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation, the Department of Energy and its regulators need to know more about the extent of contamination in the Columbia River. That requires checking hundreds of fish, in part to assess their condition, but chiefly to test for any Hanford chemicals or radionuclides that could harm anyone eating those fish. Someone has to catch the fish. And Environmental Assessment Services of Richland has been given that dirty job. This past week, employees were fishing for sturgeon and walleye.