California coastal fish toxins, interesting read

[hook1fred]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...-from-several/

[sandydiego]

Originally Posted by hook1fred

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...-from-several/

I am quite leery of all these reports with no references. I would not eat fish out of any harbor or bay with heavy powerboat traffic anyways. There is not one link to this state wide science data. After all the bogus MPLA data, I am looking at who generates the data and what the true agenda is. Take a look at all the side articles and you get a better idea.

I am a beliver of keeping our oceans clean. I always pickup trash on the water while I'm fishing. Trying to leave the fishing grounds in a better condtion than I found it. One of the principals of boy scouts is "leave no trace". I know that I'm not the only one out there doing this.

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Steve

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by sandydiego

I am a beliver of keeping our oceans clean. I always pickup trash on the water while I'm fishing. Trying to leave the fishing grounds in a better condtion than I found it. One of the principals of boy scouts is "leave no trace". I know that I'm not the only one out there doing this.

Ditto on the trash pick up. Everytime that I go out I end up picking up at least three items, it never fails. I've picked up everything from ReadyWhip cans to the white foam trays that hold squid that's sold at the bait shops. Its sad that most of the trash that I've picked up actually comes from fellow fisherman.

[YakMedic]

Originally Posted by sandydiego

I am quite leery of all these reports with no references. I would not eat fish out of any harbor or bay with heavy powerboat traffic anyways. There is not one link to this state wide science data. After all the bogus MPLA data, I am looking at who generates the data and what the true agenda is. Take a look at all the side articles and you get a better idea.


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Steve

I'm with you on that. The banner advertisment against the Partnership for Sustainable Oceans gives me a pretty good idea as to what this whole thing is about. Unless it is a peer reviewd article in a scientific journal its crap. Even then it can be very skewed.

[toman8r]

Originally Posted by YakMedic

I'm with you on that. The banner advertisment against the Partnership for Sustainable Oceans gives me a pretty good idea as to what this whole thing is about. Unless it is a peer reviewd article in a scientific journal its crap. Even then it can be very skewed.

Actually I'm pretty sure that ad banner is a Google AdSense ad, meaning the content of the ad is chosen solely by the words used in the article (words like fishing, fish, ocean --> random advertisement related to those words), and the site has no say in what ads are displayed. A fishing forum I read once had the same ad displayed before the moderators realized and did something about it (it may actually have been BWE).

It's pretty hard to read, but in the bottom of the image with the contamination levels you can see "Source: Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program." Full reports are available on their website. Looks like interesting stuff, that is if you're into reading 100 page papers.