TheFishSite Latest News
State Warns About Mercury Levels in Local Fish
US - State scientists are recommending that children and women who are pregnant or breast-feeding avoid eating bass and sturgeon caught in the Sacramento River and upper Delta because of mercury contamination.This warning is the latest in a series of advisories issued over the years for fish that can accumulate mercury washed from long- abandoned gold mines.
This time, however, researchers did more than just examine fish tissue. They checked the other end of the fishing lines – the anglers.
Many of them were bagging species not usually included in fish consumption reports: pikeminnow, hitch, sucker, carp, goldfish and Asiatic clams. Researchers previously had targeted more popular game fish such as striped bass, sturgeon, trout and salmon.
"We didn't realize we were speaking in different tongues," Robert Brodberg, a toxicologist in the state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, which issued a draft of the eating guide earlier this week.
Source: Sacbee
Latest Industry News
Omega Proteins Rise in 2nd Quarter
Vietnamese Seafood Could Find New Home in Russia
New Fisheries Body Brings New Hope to Ghana
2nd Chance for 7000 SIDR-hit Fishermen in Patuakhali
EU Fleets Deployed to Rescue Cod and Tuna- Capitalism Killing the Sea
SFF Renews Call for Fuel Crisis Aid
Bahrain Restocking the Sea with Sea Bream
IFA: Government Sinking Aquaculture Sector
MRAG Opens Asia Pacific Office
