Subject: Sediment Cleanup, was: Lead shot
Date: Jul 21 13:47:39 1995
From: Serge Le Huitouze - serge at cs.sfu.ca


Teresa Michelsen writes:

> the birds are also affected, though not studied). There are fishing
> adviseries in these bays, though widely ignored. One woman I know was
> unable to nurse her child as a result of the PCBs that had accumulated in
> her system from eating seafood caught one summer in Elliott Bay.

I don't want to appear skepitcal, yet I am :-)

I do not doubt that PCBs can hurt people, but I'm just wondering who made
this conclusion that she lost her child *only because* of see food ?

I think (not expert in these things however :-) that this sad story may
happen some time, and is not necessarily linked to poisoning of some
sort.


> Hope this wasn't too much of a digression!! I've gotten interested lately
> in how important habitat considerations are when designing aquatic
> cleanups, and hope to make use of your collective expertise more in
> the future.


Not at all, I join my voice to the many guys that already comment !

Hope I won't be perceived by some tweeters (no name needed here :-)
as being too much critical once again...

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