that and that there's oil tankers that travel San Pablo Bay. Phillips 66 has a refinery near(within a mile) from where that picture was taken.
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We have a huge refinery in Ponca. The local lake doesn't have any mercury warnings.
I’d like to know more about exactly how they test the fish. Do they properly fillet and skin then test just the fillets? Was red meat/blood lines/fat/etc all trimmed away? So many variables at play it’s difficult to trust without more details
ok. No oil tankers(or other cargo shipping vessels) in that lake either. edit, also in the area is a former TNT plant a mile in the other direction of those photos. The largest at the time in the early 1900s. It's where I'm headed to this weekend! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules,_California
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Are the oil tankers discharging their cargo into the ocean? I'm not sure I'm following your train of thought.
What would that have to do with mercury levels in the ocean?
I’m not sure which pollutants boat exhaust and such puts in the water, but I think he’s implying that area probably sees more general pollution than our small inland lakes
I love me some fresh oysters at certain restaurants and a good redfish at trappers or the Y lol
The great lakes have a mercury alert which also has a high ship population. Lower than Oklahoma.
The Great Lakes Basin draws millions of anglers each year to fish in its lakes, rivers and streams.
In addition, millions more of the region’s residents consume those fish.
The problem is, only about half the people in the Great Lakes states are aware of such advisories, according to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The study in the journal “Science of the Total Environment” found that 5 million people exceeded the recommended fish intake of two meals or 12 ounces per week, as suggested by the Environmental Protection Agency, over the study’s 12-month survey period.
Notably, women, nonwhites, younger residents and those with lower education levels were less aware of fish advisories, and thus more prone to eat more than the recommended amount, researchers found.
Big ships burn diesel and discharge their exhaust into the air unlike an outboard motor on our small lakes that discharge the exhaust into the water to muffle it.
I learned this years ago and wife had just bought a box of tilapia at Sam's. I went to the freezer and put that crap in big blue.
