Eating fish still healthy?

[emeraldkity4]

<p>[Local</a> News | “Pristine” parks tainted by pollution, study finds | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004244996_parkpollution27m.html]Local”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004244996_parkpollution27m.html)</p>

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You can’t get much farther into Washington’s wilderness than Hoh Lake.</p>

<p>The small lake is cupped by steep, rocky slopes high in the Olympic Mountains, and the signs of civilization include a crude trail and the occasional campsite.</p>

<p>But even there, the turquoise water, along with the fish, snow, mud and trees, all bear the toxic fingerprints of the industrial world.</p>

<p>A massive new study of 20 Western national parks and monuments, including Washington’s Olympic, Mount Rainier and North Cascades parks, found traces of everything from pesticides and mercury to man-made industrial chemicals in some of the most remote and untouched places in the country.

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<p>[Chemicals</a> In Our Waters Are Affecting Humans And Aquatic Life In Unanticipated Ways](<a href=“http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080216095740.htm]Chemicals”>Chemicals In Our Waters Are Affecting Humans And Aquatic Life In Unanticipated Ways | ScienceDaily)</p>

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Derek Muir of Environment Canada and colleagues have determined that of the 30,000 or so chemicals used commercially in the United States and Canada, about 400 resist breaking down in the environment and can accumulate in fish and wildlife. These researchers estimate that of this 400, only 4 percent are routinely analyzed and about 75 percent have not been studied. These “emerging chemical contaminants,” or ECCs, are not necessarily all new substances. But with improved detection technologies, their unexpected potential impacts on the environment and human health are just now coming to light.

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[thisoldman]

<p>Salmon Fishhead stew. Luv sucking out the brains.</p>

[sax]

<p>^^so much for breakfast :eek:</p>

[crabbylady]

<p>Alaska Salmon - Still doin the WILD thing :)</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>I just eat wild salmon too, although I don’t really eat alot of flesh period.</p>

<p>[Local</a> News | Hormonal chemicals may be imperiling fish | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003645892_hormone01m.html]Local”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003645892_hormone01m.html)</p>

<p>I’ve gone fishing in Elliott Bay, when the kids were little and we used to take their great-grandpa, but we didn’t eat it- * shudder*</p>

<p>I wonder though what the hormones in the water are doing to * us?*</p>