'Fish attractors' from energy companies' scrap plastic pipe

NEW ORLEANS - Plastic pipes that energy companies would otherwise send to landfills are being turned into "fish attractors" in at least three southern states.Kentucky biologists have made hundreds of these artificial reefs and set them out in lakes, rivers and other waterways. Louisiana and Tennessee are starting similar programs in partnership with energy companies.Biologists say small fish shelter in and around the structures and munch on the algae and aquatic insects that glom onto them. The