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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: johng on January 14, 2014, 08:46:30 AM

Title: Fukushima and our fisheries
Post by: johng on January 14, 2014, 08:46:30 AM: So, it's been three years since the tsunami and the subsequent devastation of the nuclear reactors at Fukushima. According to the best sources I could find about 400 metric tons of radioactive water is being dumped/leaked into the Pacific each day. For me, I am quite concerned. Also, recent reports seem to suggest that the cores have melted through the containment vessels and are now in the ground. :yike:

What do you guys think though? I would like to get the input of my fellow NW Sportsmen.

Personally, I would at least think the EPA/NOAA/Coast Guard/WDFW/ somebody should be testing fish for radioactivity....

Am I just being paranoid? :yike:

Or is this an environmental disaster of epic proportions?

Somewhere in between?

I really am sad.... While I have caught my share of fish in the great Pacific NW I have yet to catch a steelie in a drift boat on the Olympic Peninsula... so epic. If I ever do catch one I would like to be able to eat it.

- jg
Title: Re: Fukushima and our fisheries
Post by: KFhunter on January 14, 2014, 09:24:44 AM: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029 (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029)

Haven't seen anything on Tuna or other migratory fish as yet.
Title: Re: Fukushima and our fisheries
Post by: Special T on January 14, 2014, 09:39:28 AM: I cant find the article, however i read that where most of the impact will be is in fish bones. There is a material that builds up in the bones of animals tat causes problems. So i would imagine fish like sardeens or predatory migrating fish bones would be bad to eat. It is possible that the radiation my be "diluted" but some of the heavy metals from this disaster could make its way here in the bones or systems of fish that migrate. I think the material is stromnium???
Title: Re: Fukushima and our fisheries
Post by: snowpack on January 14, 2014, 09:57:57 AM: I haven't seen any report with findings of any fish with radiation above normal background or any change in local water radiation. So far it seems that your fish will get more radiation from being set on a granite countertop than from living in the Eastern Pacific.