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They deplete fishing stocks by fishing. They don't want people worried that their fish are contaminated, and they don't want their stock depleted by a different
by Pyxl101 11y ago
They deplete fishing stocks by fishing. They don't want people worried that their fish are contaminated, and they don't want their stock depleted by a different cause than fishing.
- HillaryBriss 11y agoYeah. Makes sense. I guess nuclear contamination is in a different category than say, pollution from coal burning power plants, which add a lot of mercury to the environment which then ends up in high level ocean predators like tuna. The fishing industry doesn't seem to have the ability to stop that kind of pollution. Maybe it's because many sea food consumers people casually ignore mercury levels in fish they eat. Or maybe it's because the Japanese seafood supply chain is well enough managed and regulated that people really know where a piece of fish in a market actually came from. Perhaps people carry geiger counters into the supermarkets there. I don't know.
- nitrogen 11y agoThe documentary "The Cove" has a side story about mercury in Japanese seafood from some places.