Loading ...inside information from that perspective. Nor am I into marine fishing or harvesting of other edible marine biomass, so I have no dockside gossip to pass on from commercial or recreational fishers. Mrs. Equiz, who does most of our food shopping has noticed, as I have, that there are no advertised warnings about consuming marine food from the portion of the Pacific Ocean bordering the coast of British Columbia. That is, there seem to be no advertised warnings about safety of Pacific marine food from scientists in Fisheries and Oceans, from regulatory officials in food safety agencies, nor from retail vendors of Pacific marine foods at our local fisherman’s wharf or in retail food outlets. So the only warnings we have seen are probably the same ones that you have seen about Fukushima conmtamination on numerous postings that appear on websites such as SGT Reports.
So what have we done about our consumption of seafood from the eastern pacific? Probably about the same as you. We are highly skeptical of its safety and have stopped buying any marine seafood that we know is ocean-run from the eastern Pacific region. I have rationalized, perhaps naively so, that perhaps commercially available farm salmon may be less likely to be contaminated from Fukushima radioactive outfall than would be ocean-run wild salmon that have been out in the Gulf of Alaska or elsewhere in the eastern Pacific for part of their life cycle. These farm salmon are typically reared in protected near-shore areas in the somewhat “inland” areas surrounding the Strait of Georgia, and that is why I imagine (but do not know) that they may be less susceptible to marine radioactive contamination than ocean-run salmon would be.
Check me out with your Geiger counter if we ever meet. Cheers. Equiz
Auandag @ 17:11. I am not a marine scientist nor a fish biologist so have no
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