[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')laska salmon as well as all types of Pacific seafood (Shrimp, clams, scallops, squid, etc.) are being tainted with radioactive contamination. So are the people who consume them. What do you think happens to people who eat radiation-contaminated food? Worse, what happens to people who eat cancerous tumors without knowing what they are?

[onlooker]

Sorry P, if I spoiled your appetite for the day. Just thought I would give a heads up to any and all poster who live in those areas.

[Tanada]

What is the point of posting a hoax that is well over a year old? This crud has the same level of validity as the 'children of chernobyl' rip off that they kept rerunning in the 1990's.

Valid science requires you give actual numbers, you know like out of 3 million fish caught 1% had strange cysts and tumors. If you collect enough of anything you will find sick animals or plants. The key question is, what percentage of the animals were sick before and what percentage are sick now, not can someone find scary pictures of sick animals.

[KaiserJeep]

I've been a fisherman for decades, and whenever I'm gutting a fish and find disease or parasites, I dispose of the fish and the guts in a landfill.

Tumorous fishes were all too common in the East Coast and New England rivers and lakes until they stopped using mercury as a pulp bleach in the paper mills, and for some decades after the practice ended.

Those fish I have caught in Western streams from Santa Cruz to North Alaska have always been exceptionally healthy and tasty compared to anything I ever caught in the Atlantic or the fresh waterways of the overcrowded East Coast.

One exception is the area I now live in. The hill above me where the homeless are occupying a county park is a former open pit cinnabar (i.e. mercury ore) mine. The fish caught in this Santa Teresa County Park and in the neighboring Almaden Quicksilver Park are contaminated with mercury and should not be consumed. Of course, that does not stop the homeless from catching and consuming them, and perhaps explains some of the bizarre behavior these people display. About 20 years back, before the homeless encampment was there, we had an outbreak of dementia associated with marijuana grown in the mining pits, with a network of drip irrigation lines from the nearby springs.

So I have to drive about 45 minutes to find a clean stream or lake with fish suitable for eating. I have been buying fish at the supermarket for about a decade.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KaiserJeep', 'I')'ve been a fisherman for decades, and whenever I'm gutting a fish and find disease or parasites, I dispose of the fish and the guts in a landfill.

Tumorous fishes were all too common in the East Coast and New England rivers and lakes until they stopped using mercury as a pulp bleach in the paper mills, and for some decades after the practice ended.

Those fish I have caught in Western streams from Santa Cruz to North Alaska have always been exceptionally healthy and tasty compared to anything I ever caught in the Atlantic or the fresh waterways of the overcrowded East Coast.
Kaiser, thanks for that interesting story. Yes the entire planet is so contaminated that it is hard to find healthy and pristine resources anymore. Supermarket food is also notorious for being bad. Oh and thanks for not ganging up on me with regard to the Fukushima nuclear debacle. I really thought that cancerous fish was a good indication of radioactive contamination but guess I am wrong.

One exception is the area I now live in. The hill above me where the homeless are occupying a county park is a former open pit cinnabar (i.e. mercury ore) mine. The fish caught in this Santa Teresa County Park and in the neighboring Almaden Quicksilver Park are contaminated with mercury and should not be consumed. Of course, that does not stop the homeless from catching and consuming them, and perhaps explains some of the bizarre behavior these people display. About 20 years back, before the homeless encampment was there, we had an outbreak of dementia associated with marijuana grown in the mining pits, with a network of drip irrigation lines from the nearby springs.

So I have to drive about 45 minutes to find a clean stream or lake with fish suitable for eating. I have been buying fish at the supermarket for about a decade.