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It’s extremely unlikely because the accumulation tends to happen in top-of-foodchain fish. When fish eat fish that eat fish that eat fish, there can we quite a
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
It’s extremely unlikely because the accumulation tends to happen in top-of-foodchain fish. When fish eat fish that eat fish that eat fish, there can we quite a bit of accumulation. Smaller fish tend to be safer. I’d imagine that plants at the bottom of the foodchain would be very safe.
- wolfram74 4y agoThis was what I was going to say, my only contribution will be to add i was taught this mechanism was called ecologic magnification, but apparently in wikipedia it's refferred to as biological magnification[0], so, some term drift in 20 years perhaps [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnification