Just ONE MORE REASON to NOT EAT FISH!
"Pollution threatens Wash. shellfish" July 11, 2011|Associated Press
SAMISH ISLAND, Wash. - For over 75 years, Blau Oyster Co. has relied on Washington state’s cool clean waters to grow the plump oysters that are as prized in the Northwest as salmon and orcas. But too much pollution from animal and human waste has been washing into Samish Bay in north Puget Sound, preventing shellfish harvests on 38 days so far this year....
The REAL ENVIRONMENTAL DANGER, not the fart-misting frauds of global warming.
Most of the harvest from the small business is shucked and ends up in stews or can be ordered pan-fried or raw at local restaurants; some oysters are sold in the shell as far away as Hong Kong and Singapore.
Washington state is the nation’s leading producer of farmed oysters, clams, and other bivalves, with about $100 million in annual sales.
The recent downgrade of 4,000 acres of shellfish beds in Samish Bay because of fecal contamination means more days when shellfish beds cannot be harvested, hurting the local economy and jeopardizing the much larger, decades-long effort to clean up pollution in Puget Sound, the nation’s second-largest estuary....
Cancel that clam roll.
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Of course, it can't be the oil and chemicals that were dumped into it last year.
And as usual, those items are nowhere to be found in my newspaper.
