Radioactive tuna crosses Pacific to US

[Fabbs]

Are you still munching tuna?
Now we can choose between radioactive Fukoshima tuna or yummy BP Gulf oil tuna.
mmmmn.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/ja...-Pacific-to-US

Excerpt:
The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the US and Japanese governments.

Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.

But scientists did not expect the nuclear fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world because such fish can metabolise and shed radioactive substances.

One of the largest and speediest fish, Pacific bluefin tuna can grow to three metres and weigh more than 450 kilograms. They spawn off the Japan coast and swim east at breakneck speed to school in waters off California and the tip of Baja California, Mexico.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

I smell a Godzilla reboot coming next summer.

[DMC]

Maybe I can track them easier.

[Wild Cobra]

I smell a Godzilla reboot coming next summer.

CharlieTunaZilla?

[BlackSwordsMan]

Man I had tuna a month ago it tasted like a fart I shrugged it off and for almost a month it ed my stomach up pretty bad. Constant diarrhea and anything I ate I had to run to the bathroom. I still have 4 cans in my pantry I might throw them away

[BlackSwordsMan]

No joke I bought them from HEB it taste like someone farted in my mouth D=

[BlackSwordsMan]

I haven't eaten anything from the ocean since.

[Bro'Man]

I had me some tuna fish sammiches at a graduation party last night.

[Summers]

But scientists did not expect the nuclear fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world because such fish can metabolise and shed radioactive substances.

Mercury, on the other hand...

[Fabbs]

^^ yeah, and also from the article:

The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the US and Japanese governments.

Is that "below" meaning good or bad?

[lefty]

Canned tuna is great for a quick meal


But too much mercury and

[LiamNeeson'shero]

^^^^
the below means its good for consumption

[mFFL03]

I haven't eaten Tuna in quite sometime. I think its irresponsible and partly fear that I'm not really eating tuna. There have been reports for years about "fake tuna" or the fish escolar that has the same color, but terrible side effects on the human body.

This article dates back to 2009:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/tunadna/

[Fabbs]

I haven't eaten Tuna in quite sometime. I think its irresponsible and partly fear that I'm not really eating tuna. There have been reports for years about "fake tuna" or the fish escolar that has the same color, but terrible side effects on the human body.

This article dates back to 2009:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/tunadna/

Props for the article.

Over half the sushi joints were pumping out crappy fake stuff, wow.