Mercury Poisoning In Fish from Japan

I have written a short thing on the Trash Heap that is floating along in the Pacific ocean that came from Japan’s tsunami.  That was also full of radioactive material in it.  Something moe sinister has been happening way before this though and we have all been effected by it.  

For years Japan has been poisoning fish, whale and dolphin meat with Mercury. This practice and this poisoning has been spread around the Pacific Ocean. In 2008 they were finally caught. You can read the full story on this website: http://www.bluevoice.org/news_dolphinmeat.php

Mercury poisoning is also very deadly to humans and sea creatures too.  The Japanese government has been poisoning their citizens for years with this stuff and not telling them that they were. You may think that this is just in Japan but I will explain why it can be anywhere that fish in The Pacific Ocean can be eaten from around the globe.

When they catch the dolphin in special nets, they slaughter them right there in the water.  That water washes out to sea.  Small fish and even plankton ingests the mercury in the water from the blood of the slaughtered dolphins.  Every fish that eats the plankton gets a double dose of mercury.  With each bigger fish the larger amount of mercury.  Fish do not stay in the same place all their lives.  They travel all along the oceans in the mating and other travels taking that mercury with them.  People catch fish of all kinds in that ocean too and it them makes it into the food supply of humans and other animals that eat fish, whale and dolphin and other fish.  This has been happening for many, many years before the Fukushima tsunami.  

What other things have they been tampering with that we and their own people do not know about?   

Someones Trash Becomes Others Homes and Livelihoods

I am talking about all those island that are made of the trash and debris from the last  Fukushima tsunami disaster in 2011. They estimated that some 5 million tons of trash and debris had sunk off of Japans coast and the rest went out to sea.  According to the report in 2011 http://rt.com/usa/fukushima-debris-island-texas-266/  At  tht point in time they didn’t know how much of this debris was in the ocean.  

We humans call it junk, debris, trash or waste and we automatically think it is dangerous and also an eyesore for humans.  

Many of us humans do not realize that anything that floats in the oceans become food or homes or even hiding places for several varieties of fish, mammals and crustaceans.  

We also cannot forget the plant kingdom.  I bet there is some form or another of seaweed or other food that lives in these islands.  

Update: as of  February 2014 the death toll was at Stress and other illnesses related to the 2011 quake and tsunami had killed 1,656 people in Fukushima Prefecture as of Wednesday, outnumbering the 1,607 whose deaths were directly tied to disaster-caused injuries, according to data compiled by the prefecture and local police.  http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/20/national/post-quake-illnesses-kill-more-in-fukushima-than-2011-disaster/#.VQoXk47F9u4

As far as the size of this Trash Island I have found, through Google Search, articles that say it is the size of your fingernail, to the size of Texas and also the size of the United States.  I cannot find a reliable source when searching the current size.

The tsunami happed in 2011 and it is now 2015.  Now that the “island” is full of living organisms, we want to “clean” it up? 

Who would we be helping at this late date, Humans or the Animal kingdom?

Salmons in Canons! What Are We Doing?

I just read an article here that disturbs me http://news.sky.com/story/1317804/salmon-cannon-fires-fish-over-dams-at-22mph

It sounds good that they are helping the Salmon get into the lakes that they spawn in.  They are using a type of soft sided cannon to fire these fish into the lakes and dammed areas that they spawn in to help them with the yearly track to reproduce.

I have some concerns with this.  It is just putting a band aid on a man-made problem with another man-made solution.  Every single time that we fool with the workings of Mother Nature we produce problems for ourselves later down the road. 

The problems that I see are:

1.      How are the salmon going to get back down stream and into the oceans until the next migration to spawn again?

2.      I see this as a problem with the fish and wildlife that are already in the upper part of the dam with the addition of these that could not make it.

a.      It will definitely cause some species to decrease in the waters as these salmon will take over the big pond.

b.      It will definitely cause an abundance of other species, such as bear to be on the increase in population as salmon is their favorite food source.

3.      When there ae more problems with more bears, will humans kill them in the long run, make them close to extinction too?

We grow salmon in fish farms and there are others that grow certain species of fish in enclosed habitats in the lakes and oceans in other parts of the word.

When we fool with Mother Nature she always finds a solution to those problems that we have made.