Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are soon over... - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

roadx · 08-27-2013, 05:11 AM

Baja_Traveler · 08-27-2013, 05:56 AM

The whole article is alarmist bull hockey. In fact, I cant find any truth in it at all when doing a search. And the reference to Bluefin tuna - results were barely above background levels, but still so low that one would have to eat nothing but tuna to get any dose. Reference from the scientist that made the measurement: "The amounts the fish carried were minuscule — far less, ounce for ounce, than the amount of naturally occurring radiation in a banana"...

Here's an example from the UC Berkeley Nuclear Energy Dept website:

Results Log
3/5/2013 2:25pm: We have tested a sample of salmon from the Pacific Northwest that we purchased locally. No radioactive isotopes were detected from the reactors at Fukushima to very low limits. These results have been posted on the salmon section of our Food Chain page.

9/27/2012 5:20pm: Three more dried seaweed samples were tested recently that came from the same source as our measurements in 2011. As with the previous samples, no radioactive isotopes were detected from the reactors at Fukushima. These results have been posted on the seaweed section of our Food Chain page.

We have also tested a sample of soy sauce purchased in a local grocery store. The soy sauce was labeled as a product of Japan. No radioactive isotopes were detected that can be traced to the reactors at Fukushima. Our limits for Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were 0.029 and 0.032 Bq/L, respectively. For comparison, the activity concentration of Potassium-40 (K-40) in the sample was approximately 100 Bq/L. These results have been posted on our Food Chain Page.

oneyedeer · 08-27-2013, 06:06 AM

I caught a couple of football size bluefin from my last overnight trip, and I got a personal radiation detector. When I get home from work I will run a quick sweep and report back. If it's there it should pick up.

driftwood · 08-27-2013, 06:07 AM

Just consider the source...These people survive by putting panic in people's mind. : CollapsingIntoConsciousness

TJones · 08-27-2013, 06:24 AM

StinkyMatt · 08-27-2013, 06:58 AM

Here is the funny/ scary part about this:

For every intelligent person who read this and quickly came to the conclusion that this is BS.....

There are probably 4 or 5 more impulsive, less savvy readers who will believe this and spread it to everyone they know.

P.S.

If anyone has some of that radioactive bluefin tuna, I heard that pan searing it on all sides makes it very safe to eat. Adding a little soy sauce makes it organic!

ful-rac · 08-27-2013, 07:06 AM

We could only be so lucky...dead and dying sea lions...where? I think Jim has got a pretty f-up finger must be the radiation...we're doomed!

easyday · 08-27-2013, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ful-rac

We could only be so lucky...dead and dying sea lions...where? I think Jim has got a pretty f-up finger must be the radiation...we're doomed!

Haha who could ask for more dead sea lions. And I dont know I frequent the coast as all of us do and I have yet to see an "epidemic" of dead sea lions...too bad though lobster season is coming up.

Ggiannig89 · 08-27-2013, 07:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ful-rac

We could only be so lucky...dead and dying sea lions...where? I think Jim has got a pretty f-up finger must be the radiation...we're doomed!

When I read that part about the sea lions I knew immediately this article was BS

beef78 · 08-27-2013, 07:06 AM

So, since the radiation along the pacific coast will double within five years, the average fish should contain about half of the contamination that your average banana has... This report doesn't have any real numbers or figures that relate anything that is happening so the average person can understand. Normal doomsday reporting that I expect to happen.

08-27-2013, 05:11 AM	#1
roadx . Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,155	__________________

08-27-2013, 05:56 AM	#2
Baja_Traveler Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Table 17, Bay Park Fish Co. Posts: 943	The whole article is alarmist bull hockey. In fact, I cant find any truth in it at all when doing a search. And the reference to Bluefin tuna - results were barely above background levels, but still so low that one would have to eat nothing but tuna to get any dose. Reference from the scientist that made the measurement: "The amounts the fish carried were minuscule — far less, ounce for ounce, than the amount of naturally occurring radiation in a banana"... Here's an example from the UC Berkeley Nuclear Energy Dept website: Results Log 3/5/2013 2:25pm: We have tested a sample of salmon from the Pacific Northwest that we purchased locally. No radioactive isotopes were detected from the reactors at Fukushima to very low limits. These results have been posted on the salmon section of our Food Chain page. 9/27/2012 5:20pm: Three more dried seaweed samples were tested recently that came from the same source as our measurements in 2011. As with the previous samples, no radioactive isotopes were detected from the reactors at Fukushima. These results have been posted on the seaweed section of our Food Chain page. We have also tested a sample of soy sauce purchased in a local grocery store. The soy sauce was labeled as a product of Japan. No radioactive isotopes were detected that can be traced to the reactors at Fukushima. Our limits for Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 were 0.029 and 0.032 Bq/L, respectively. For comparison, the activity concentration of Potassium-40 (K-40) in the sample was approximately 100 Bq/L. These results have been posted on our Food Chain Page. Last edited by Baja_Traveler; 08-27-2013 at 06:04 AM.

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08-27-2013, 07:06 AM	#7
ful-rac Emperor Join Date: May 2009 Location: Buena Park Posts: 3,649	We could only be so lucky...dead and dying sea lions...where? I think Jim has got a pretty f-up finger must be the radiation...we're doomed! __________________ There's nothing colder than yesterday's hotdog.

08-27-2013, 07:06 AM	#10
beef78 Large Member Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: San Diego Posts: 316	So, since the radiation along the pacific coast will double within five years, the average fish should contain about half of the contamination that your average banana has... This report doesn't have any real numbers or figures that relate anything that is happening so the average person can understand. Normal doomsday reporting that I expect to happen. __________________ "I shall not tiptoe through life to arrive safely at death."

08-27-2013, 06:06 AM	#3
oneyedeer Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Orange County, ca Posts: 684	I caught a couple of football size bluefin from my last overnight trip, and I got a personal radiation detector. When I get home from work I will run a quick sweep and report back. If it's there it should pick up.

08-27-2013, 06:07 AM	#4
driftwood Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: SAN DIEGO Posts: 1,086	Just consider the source...These people survive by putting panic in people's mind. : CollapsingIntoConsciousness

08-27-2013, 06:58 AM	#6
StinkyMatt Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Under a bridge Posts: 2,169	Here is the funny/ scary part about this: For every intelligent person who read this and quickly came to the conclusion that this is BS..... There are probably 4 or 5 more impulsive, less savvy readers who will believe this and spread it to everyone they know. P.S. If anyone has some of that radioactive bluefin tuna, I heard that pan searing it on all sides makes it very safe to eat. Adding a little soy sauce makes it organic!