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The other thing about the Baltic Sea is that there has been so much fertiliser and toxic farming chemicals running into it since the start of the agricultural r
by olelele 1y ago
The other thing about the Baltic Sea is that there has been so much fertiliser and toxic farming chemicals running into it since the start of the agricultural revolution that the fish is full of heavy metals and toxins. The Swedish authorities recommend against eating it more than once a month and never for pregnant women and people with health conditions.
This farming runoff overload has also led to huge areas where the sea floor is completely dead.
- Hilift 1y agoCrabs in the Chesapeake Bay are the same. About 80% of tidal segments there are contaminated with PCB's and heavy metals. Regulators describe them as "impairments", and recommend not eating them more than once per month. Cod are bottom feeders and are affected by pollution that settles to the bottom.
- gyudin 1y agoClassic and, as usual, nobody is held accountable for it. Classic EU.
- olelele 1y agoFrom what I recall this runoff was the most intense between 1950-1980.