Rudolph has eaten too much salmon
Posted on 09/07/2001 6:48:01 PM PDT by riley1992
Startling Glow-In-The-Dark Salmon
Last Updated: September 07, 2001 07:52 AM ET
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An eerie glow from salmon drying in a smokehouse startled some residents of Holy Cross, a Yupik Eskimo village of about 300 on the lower Yukon River in Alaska.
Sandra Dementieff found that some of the salmon in her smokehouse was glowing in the dark, something she had never seen before, according to a report by the Tundra Drums, the region's newspaper. Some villagers wondered if nuclear contamination in the Bering Sea was to blame.
But officials from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that the glow was from phosphorescent marine bacteria that had spread over the fish.
Ted Meyers, chief fish pathologist for the Department of Fish and Game, said he found the luminescent bacteria when he studied a piece of the glowing salmon sent to his Juneau office from Holy Cross.
He said studies of the bacteria show that it is spread when fish are stored in unusually moist conditions.
Fish racks in rural Alaska probably hold many more salmon with luminescent bacteria than people realize, because the glow is hidden by the lack of nighttime darkness during the summer, Meyers said.
"A lot of times, I think, it just goes unobserved," he said.
Whether the glowing salmon is safe to eat remains debatable, Meyers said.
"The sample I got wasn't something I'd want to eat. It didn't pass my smell test," he said.
ROFL, public education strikes again!
..........hey...............wait.............
Actually, that's improper use. As is commonly known, they should be reserved for lighting during religious ceremonies.
You know................................Holy Mackerel.
No, it's the offshore plutonium-drilling rigs.
I hear glow-in-the-dark oysters are good for, uh, stamina.
Yes...........and you can......umm.........see your "work" better.
ROFL, public education strikes again!
Eskimos living in rural Alaska can be forgiven for their ignorance. But what about the liberal elitists who graduate from Harvard and Yale, and go on to run academia, the media, and the government? Remember, only last year, they were dithering about how the polar ice cap was melting 'for the first time in fifty million years!'
If the Inventor of the Internet was President right now, he'd probably commission a multi-million dollar study on 'potentially radioactive salmon.'
Actually, I lived in a native village for four years and I would not eat some of the food that they do because of their preparation techniques. One of my friends would bury raw fish in a bucket under his house for about three weeks and then dig it up and eat it righ out of the bucket. I told him that the reason his nose was above his mouth was that if something smelled like that he shouldn't put it in his mouth. He said it was really good. I was never tempted to try it.
It is never ok to microwave salmon!
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