Toxins in our fish?

[Chris Hayes]

Onto a bigger scale... The entire west coast is HEAVILY contaminated with mercury due to the gold mining and the amount of mercury they used.
Across the state, subsistence fishers — low-income anglers often from immigrant communities — fish to feed their families. Yet a state study determined that fish in 99% of coastal waters and 49% of freshwaters exceed safe levels established for eating.
Mercury and polychlorinated-biphenyl (PCB) contamination is particularly alarming in the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In 2001, a Contra Costa County study determined that 70% of local anglers surveyed were Asian, African American or Latino, and 73% regularly ate fish that can be unsafe to consume.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/

 

[swampratt]

Tilapia is used in wast water treatment plants then sold to you for consumption.

My son drives an 18 wheeler and picked up a load of those fish.
I do not remember where but here in the states.

The place he picked them up was a waste water plant and one of the guys there said do not eat Tilapia from the USA.
He said they eat the human waste and many die and float up and are scooped up and sold for consumption.

NO THANKS!

Then human waste thing is disturbing but if you think deeper like all the medicine/drugs that they are swimming and eating in must be in the meat

 

[Chris Hayes]

Here in Phoenix, I haven't seen any Tilapia for over 10 yrs that wasn't from China. And that's how long it's been since I've eaten any.

 

[Dorkus]

Here in Phoenix, I haven't seen any Tilapia for over 10 yrs that wasn't from China. And that's how long it's been since I've eaten any.

I can’t imagine Chinese tilapia being any healthier.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

Onto a bigger scale... The entire west coast is HEAVILY contaminated with mercury due to the gold mining and the amount of mercury they used.
Across the state, subsistence fishers — low-income anglers often from immigrant communities — fish to feed their families. Yet a state study determined that fish in 99% of coastal waters and 49% of freshwaters exceed safe levels established for eating.
Mercury and polychlorinated-biphenyl (PCB) contamination is particularly alarming in the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In 2001, a Contra Costa County study determined that 70% of local anglers surveyed were Asian, African American or Latino, and 73% regularly ate fish that can be unsafe to consume.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/

I’ve also read articles about this situation. Including the fact that it’s primarily lower income folks and immigrants who actually fish for food. Sad situation when our people can’t safely provide for themselves via nature anymore.

For adult men and adult women who are done having children it’s not near as much of an issue though… just add it to the list of all the other toxins we are constantly exposed to! It’s really children that are the primary concern. High levels of mercury wreak havoc on a developing nervous system.

 

[elwoodtrix]

Onto a bigger scale... The entire west coast is HEAVILY contaminated with mercury due to the gold mining and the amount of mercury they used.
Across the state, subsistence fishers — low-income anglers often from immigrant communities — fish to feed their families. Yet a state study determined that fish in 99% of coastal waters and 49% of freshwaters exceed safe levels established for eating.
Mercury and polychlorinated-biphenyl (PCB) contamination is particularly alarming in the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In 2001, a Contra Costa County study determined that 70% of local anglers surveyed were Asian, African American or Latino, and 73% regularly ate fish that can be unsafe to consume.

https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/

I took these pictures at a fishing spot in San Pablo Bay.

 

[Beautiful Mulberry]

I would like to respectfully disagree!! It's nit that they are uneducated, just overly indoctrinated by the State run eduKation soviets.... I mean education department

So you do agree,
They are improperly educated.

 

[dennishoddy]

I45 corridor texas. Lots of Coal and coal generated electricity. Prevailing wind carries toward se oklahoma. To. Okc area water supply lakes. Easy to see.
Google earth or maps is awesome.

1000 MWe coal plant uses 9000 tonnes of coal per day.
If Mercury is 1 ppm in the exhaust plume.
Ez to see a connection.

During the obummer years, he took on a war on coal for his green agenda. One of his "experts in the EPS speculated mercury was coming from coal fired power plants.
I worked at Sooner Power plant at that time which is coal fired and assisted in the mandatory mercury emissions testing and reporting as part of my environmental monitoring duties.
OG&E spent millions of dollars buying the instruments, installing them and spending three years monitoring the amount of mercury coming out of the stacks.
The instruments didn't measure any in the first year, so the EPA came back with new equipment that was much more sensitive. It could measure one part per billion in the stack emissions.
There was an occasional reading in two years. The obummer administration abandoned the project and our equipment was mothballed.
Mercury is a naturally occurring earth element that appears naturally in our waters and the ocean. The level is so low that it's almost unreadable, but there have been a couple of instances like a lake in NE Ok that had a high mercury warning for a few different species of fish. The name escapes me at the moment.
Basically, the warning was pregnant women and small children should refrain from eating the fish. Healthy folks were told to try and restrict it to two meals a month.
Several lakes around Ok have that warning.
From the Oklahoma DEQ, "The DEQ emphasizes that this advisory does not imply that the lake water is unsafe to drink or enjoy recreational activities. The purpose of the advisory is to inform and allow people to make informed choices about their diet and recommend not consuming certain fish from these lakes more than once or twice a month."
What's interesting is that the named lakes with high mercury levels do not include Sooner Lake which is the cooling water lake right next to the power plant that is 5000 acres in size, nor any lakes around, nor Shady Point plant near Poteau. All coal burners in Oklahoma get their coal from Wyoming like most of the others which is considered to be a clean coal.
Can't speak for Tx though.

 

[dennishoddy]

I can’t imagine Chinese tilapia being any healthier.

They raise chickens on top and let their poop feed tilapia according to a news documentary that turned me off to that fish.

 

[dennishoddy]

I took these pictures at a fishing spot in San Pablo Bay.
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You have to remember that is commiefornika. Every substance in that state is known to cause cancer.