The Effects of Fukushima on West Coast Seafood
One of my farmers market customers told me that she would not be buying anymore canned albacore forever. That got my attention, and I asked her why. "It's all the radiation leaking into the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear plant." How many other customers have been silently vowing to never eat fish from the Pacific Ocean?
There are always two sides to every argument which predicated this new research project. It is impossible at this point to claim that I have THE answer. Here are some of the articles about Fukushima's effect on North Pacific seafood:
http://www.epa.gov/japan2011/japan-faqs.html#what Explains U.S. Monitoring Strategy
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/nuclearnews-3.php#1 Contamination from Japan, etc.
http://nuclearcrimes.org/fukushimaupdates2.php "Setting the Record Straight" ?
http://zerohedge.com/print/478050 George Washington's blog...really
http://vitalchoice.com/shop/pc/articlesView_old.asp?id=1742 Actual testing results on fish
http://www.savingseafood.org/opinion/michael-conathan-eating-fish-from-the-pacific-ocean-won-t-turn-you-into-a-m.html
"Eating Fish From the Pacific Ocean Won't Turn You into a Mutant" by Michael Conathan, Director of Ocean Policy at the Center for American Progress
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2012/oct/pacific-albacore-carry-barely-detectable-fingerprints-fukushima-disaster
Oregon State University fish testing results
http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/fukushima-fish "Fishing for Answers off Fukushima" by Ken Buessler, a chief scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
It's best to be self-informed on any issue. I tend to like a good scientific study. However, with computer modeling, one can noodle the data to reach pre-determined or "political" results. Science used to be our lode stone....a compass of sorts.
