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To: Smokin' Joe

“I wonder how much comes from the decayed carcasses of salmon who died after the spawning run, and then is carried downstream?”

Well, I know salmon (why’s that got that l in it?) swims fast and mercury is called quick silver, but I really don’t think they’re related.


14 posted on 02/26/2008 3:07:04 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy
The point is that the salmon spend their lives elsewhere and fish tend to concentrate heavy metals in their livers especially, but in their tissues and other organs. Spawning concentrates the fish, runoff would carry the mercury compounds downriver...

It may not apply here, and may just be a quirk of global wind circulation (from Chinese or Russian power plants)--who knows. My bet is that if more grant money leads to more studies with similar results, there will be yet another push to use the information to shut down industry in the US, and not elsewhere.

17 posted on 02/26/2008 3:23:25 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Grimmy
FYI: mercury in fish
19 posted on 02/26/2008 3:26:57 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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