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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Hayes" data-source="post: 4279308" data-attributes="member: 45854"><p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/safe_to_eat/recent_conditions/#rivers_streams" target="_blank">exceed safe levels</a> established for eating.</p><p>Mercury and polychlorinated-biphenyl (PCB) contamination is particularly alarming in the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In 2001, a <a href="https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/safe_to_eat/recent_conditions/#rivers_streams" target="_blank">Contra Costa County study</a> determined that 70% of local anglers surveyed were Asian, African American or Latino, and 73% regularly ate fish that can be unsafe to consume.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/" target="_blank">https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris Hayes, post: 4279308, member: 45854"] 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 [URL='https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/safe_to_eat/recent_conditions/#rivers_streams']exceed safe levels[/URL] 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 [URL='https://mywaterquality.ca.gov/safe_to_eat/recent_conditions/#rivers_streams']Contra Costa County study[/URL] determined that 70% of local anglers surveyed were Asian, African American or Latino, and 73% regularly ate fish that can be unsafe to consume. [URL]https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/10/clean-water-in-california-is-overdue/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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