Puget Sound's salmon carry high PCB levels

[Guest guest]

not-so-good news again... Dedy

~~~

" Puget Sound's wild Chinook salmon carry long-lived industrial chemicals at

levels as high as those spotlighted by last week's landmark scientific

report on farm-raised salmon, tests show. In a few cases, the local fish

were even more polluted. "

read the rest on --

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/156714_warning15.html

FOODS CHART OF PCB LEVELS:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20040114/pcbs.gif

[Guest guest]

This brings up another question of mine - I've been doing more reading and

sech, and came to the conclusion that I probably need to be eating more

fish. I haven't really been eating much lately due to sheer laziness in

going out to get it special.

I've never liked salmon, so that's not an issue or a " worry " - my absolute

favorites are swordfish and bluefish (both of which I picked up at Whole

Foods today, marked " wild caught " ). Other than that, occasionally I'll

get some cod/scrod or maybe some tuna, but that's pretty much it for fresh

fish. So my question is ... should I be worried about the same types of

things with the sword- and bluefish as have been coming out regarding

salmon? If so, how can I minimize those risks?

Although that reminds me of another oddball curiosity thing - whenever I

get a cold, I crave the usual chicken soup, and eat lots of it. The

weird thing, though, is that I always want to eat tuna sandwiches too.

Nothing else, just soup and tuna sandwiches. It struck me a few weeks

ago when I caught my first cold in three years and kinda went " hmmmmmmm

..... that's pretty bizarre, Mar, I wonder if there's an actual REASON for

that? " Is there? From a nutritional perspective, I mean.

Thanks!

At 08:33 PM 1/15/04 -0000, you wrote:

> not-so-good news again... Dedy

> ~~~

> " Puget Sound's wild Chinook salmon carry long-lived industrial chemicals at

> levels as high as those spotlighted by last week's landmark scientific

> report on farm-raised salmon, tests show. In a few cases, the local fish

MFJ

Any moment in which you feel like dancing is a perfect moment.

[Guest guest]

I have been wondering what kind of fish to eat aswell ( and make fish head

soup ) that is like no pollutant ( heh if that is still possible )

I have heard though to stay away from swordfish as it has man made mercury

in it of high levels.

( in Australia atleast anyway )

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From: mfjewett@... [mailto:mfjewett@...]

Sent: Friday, 16 January 2004 7:09 AM

Subject: Re: Puget Sound's salmon carry high PCB levels

This brings up another question of mine - I've been doing more reading and

sech, and came to the conclusion that I probably need to be eating more

fish. I haven't really been eating much lately due to sheer laziness in

going out to get it special.

I've never liked salmon, so that's not an issue or a " worry " - my absolute

favorites are swordfish and bluefish (both of which I picked up at Whole

Foods today, marked " wild caught " ). Other than that, occasionally I'll

get some cod/scrod or maybe some tuna, but that's pretty much it for fresh

fish. So my question is ... should I be worried about the same types of

things with the sword- and bluefish as have been coming out regarding

salmon? If so, how can I minimize those risks?

Although that reminds me of another oddball curiosity thing - whenever I

get a cold, I crave the usual chicken soup, and eat lots of it. The

weird thing, though, is that I always want to eat tuna sandwiches too.

Nothing else, just soup and tuna sandwiches. It struck me a few weeks

ago when I caught my first cold in three years and kinda went " hmmmmmmm

..... that's pretty bizarre, Mar, I wonder if there's an actual REASON for

that? " Is there? From a nutritional perspective, I mean.

Thanks!

At 08:33 PM 1/15/04 -0000, you wrote:

> not-so-good news again... Dedy

> ~~~

> " Puget Sound's wild Chinook salmon carry long-lived industrial chemicals at

> levels as high as those spotlighted by last week's landmark scientific

> report on farm-raised salmon, tests show. In a few cases, the local fish

MFJ

Any moment in which you feel like dancing is a perfect moment.

[Guest guest]

LOL - yeah, I don't think it's possible either, but I'll do whatever I can

to minimize it.

I guess a lot of it has to do with which waters and stuff these different

types frequent - I'd sort of had the impression that both sword and

bluefish are deep water fish, so maybe I'd be okay there (hoping that the

various pollutants would be less concentrated that far out). But then

again, I could be completely wrong ... which is why I ask the smart people.

At 07:44 AM 1/16/04 +1000, you wrote:

> I have been wondering what kind of fish to eat aswell ( and make fish

head

> soup ) that is like no pollutant ( heh if that is still possible )

>

>

>

> I have heard though to stay away from swordfish as it has man made mercury

> in it of high levels.

>

> ( in Australia atleast anyway )

MFJ

Any moment in which you feel like dancing is a perfect moment.