Overfished AND contaminated, why the fuck bother with it?

[Taro Toporific]

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Fish Caught in Fukushima as Tainted as a Year Ago, Study Says
Bloomberg | Oct 26, 2012
Fish caught in waters off the coast of northern Japan, where an earthquake triggered a radiation leak at the Fukushima power plant, are still as contaminated today as a year ago, a study found.
Contamination levels were particularly high among species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, as sinking radioactive materials tainted the seafood, the research showed. The findings, published today in the journal Science, suggest there is a continued source of radiation from the seafloor that will have a lasting impact...more...

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<rant-on>Japanese waters have been criminally overfished for decades AND still are contaminated by Fukushima fuckup, so why the fuck bother with it at all? Now is the time, not to rebuild the fishing industry, but to use this as a chance to reduce the number of Japanese fishing boats and let fishstocks rebuild.<rant-off>

[matsuki]

"We Japanese blah blah blah ancient tradition blah blah blah jobs blah blah seafood is healthy"

[Taro Toporific]

Cesium in fish off Fukushima suggests continued contamination from seabed or nuclear reactors
washingtonpost.com --- Associated Press | October 26, 2012
TOKYO --- Radioactive cesium levels in most kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima haven’t declined in the year following Japan’s nuclear disaster, a signal that the seafloor or leakage from the damaged reactors must be continuing to contaminate the waters — possibly threatening fisheries for decades, a researcher says....
...Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts...
“The (radioactivity) numbers aren’t going down. Oceans usually cause the concentrations to decrease if the spigot is turned off,” Buesseler told The Associated Press in an interview. “There has to be somewhere they’re picking up the cesium.”
“Option one is the seafloor is the source of the continued contamination. The other source could be the reactors themselves,” he said.
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Reminded me of this (the second ad)...

[GomiGirl]

natsukashiiiiiiii

But the John West ad spawned* a whole generation of people saying "okonono" for "I dunno" instead of "wakaranai"... used to drive me nuts.

Just out of interest, what -ben ya reckon he is speaking? Or just "old man ben"?

*see what I did there? tee hee

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Just out of interest, what -ben ya reckon he is speaking? Or just "old man ben"?

Wakannai, na～

He's speaking old man, eastern dialect. It says Yaizu, so I'd hazard a guess and say Nansun (南駿), but I'd need to hear more to know for sure.

Did see what you did...could only imagine the one's you rejected...

[Taro Toporific]

Fish caught near crippled Japanese N-plant with 2,500 times the legal limit of radioactivity for human consumption
. . . •Caught as part of Tokyo Electric's scheme to monitor seafood near the plant
. . . •Firm says nets will now be installed 20km off the coast to try and prevent contaminated fish migrating
. . . •Fish lives in shallow reefs near the plant
. . . •Comes as the two year anniversary of the nuclear disaster approaches
dailymail.co.uk | 21 January 2013
A fish caught close the the Fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood, the plant's operator has revealed.
The company Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) caught the fish, dubbed 'Mike the Murasai' online, in the bay close to the Fukukshima Daiichi main reactor.
It was confirmed by Tepco to have amounts of radioactive cesium equal to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram, or 2540 times the limit of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government.
More "Mike the Murasai"...

Mike, the Murasoi the fish so contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster it is over 2,500 times the legal limit Mail.jpg