Mercury News reporting mercury news......
San Mateo County Times/Aaron Kinney, 5/25/12, "New study details mercury contamination in California sport fish."
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| Public fish tank-- I'm not your "taste of Leopard Shark". |
"New
findings from the first statewide study of contaminants in fish caught
off the California coast show that methylmercury, a toxin that damages
the nervous system of humans, was found in high concentrations in more
than a third of the locations that researchers sampled.
The report, released Tuesday by the state's water quality agency, yields new information for anglers and consumers on which species of fish tend to accumulate the substance. It also indicated that older, predatory fish have higher levels of methylmercury regardless of where they're caught.
Seven
species popular with recreational fishermen had high concentrations of
methylmercury: leopard sharks, brown smoothhound sharks, spiny dogfish,
copper rockfish, rosy rockfish, china rockfish and striped bass, the
report stated, so children and pregnant women should not eat them." Read Article.
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