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Bob Lubberman figures he's cleaned about 20,000 fish for customers over the past 20 years here at the Miss Chris Fishing Center and he's never found a lead sinker in any of them.    

That's why Lubberman is against a proposal by a coalition of environmental groups to ban the use of lead in fishing tackle. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering such a ban. Environmentalists - following a successful push to ban lead ammunition used in waterfowl hunting in the 1990s - say a ban on lead tackle is needed to further protect wildlife.