Anyone testing the fish?
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:21 pm
I wasn't sure this really should go in the Salt forum, but it is about fishing the salt.
There's a good point in this article. Not that I'm an alarmist (or any other 'ist' for that matter), but this has been on my mind. After all, I have a wife with a thyroid condition and 4 young kids who love to eat fish.
There's a good point in this article. Not that I'm an alarmist (or any other 'ist' for that matter), but this has been on my mind. After all, I have a wife with a thyroid condition and 4 young kids who love to eat fish.
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/i ... _tuna.htmlTuna spend years off the Japanese coast before migrating to the Pacific Northwest. Should someone be testing the fish for radiation?
The Washington Department of Health continues to test the air, the drinking water and even milk for any signs of radiation from the disaster in Japan. So far, the tests have shown only small amounts of radiation. Amounts that are far below what the experts say could be dangerous.
But should someone be testing the fish in the ocean?
Local fishermen catch about 100,000 pounds of albacore tuna off the Washington and Oregon's coasts each summer. Those fish spend years off the Japanese coast before migrating to the Pacific Northwest.
"Our concern is that this fallout, in addition to the run-off settling in the sea, that this is going to get into the plankton and eventually work its way into the fish," says Vidar Wespestad.
Wespestad is a fisheries biologist who spent 30 years working for NOAA in Seattle. He's spent years studying the migration of albacore across the Pacific.