Interesting read on Mercury levels in fish going up again

[luckywsp]

Thought some of you might find this interesting about the relaxing of rules for coal powered energy plants and the increased release of particulate matter and mercury into the environment

https://oneanglersvoyage.blogspot.com/2 ... g.html?m=1

[Red Beard]

Interesting read for sure. Thanks for sharing..

I wonder how oysters play a part in all this.


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[bman]

A tip - cut ALL the dark meat off your fish fillets!

A Grad student at FSU is working on a complete study... but short story the mercury is concentrated in the dark meat around the lateral line of a fish.
Does cutting it out eliminate the mercury from the fish - NO. does it reduce the mercury and other heavy metals you consume- YES.

I've had this country boy intuition for a number of years- the dark meat in a fish tasted metallic to me.
I spoke to a scientist at the mag lab about it and he told me of the grad students study.

He is going to let me know when its realeased!

[luckywsp]

Good tip Bman. The dark lines on the meat never taste good. A little extra work at the fillet table is worth it at the dinner table. I didn’t realize I was cutting out contaminants too.

[doomtrpr_z71]

It's a little hard to pin that on the coal rules since sulfur emissions were down 73% in the us when the article was written. Sulfur emissions are low enough now that farmers have to buy sulfur from the power generation companies and reapply it to fields now whereas in the past sulfur wasn't needed in a fertility program. More than likely the reason there are new recommendations for threshers etc is due to the EPA/fda using a blanket recommendation since they didn't have enough samples and now that has been revised with more current data.

[luckywsp]

Did you read the article? It said that the emissions are down which correlated with a reduction in Mercury along with a reduction in particulate matter from the coal plants. It said that if the plants reverted back to the old rules then Mercury would increase again.

[doomtrpr_z71]

Did you read the article? It said that the emissions are down which correlated with a reduction in Mercury along with a reduction in particulate matter from the coal plants. It said that if the plants reverted back to the old rules then Mercury would increase again.

Yes I read it, the particulates won't be increasing because the scrubbers are already installed and sulfur emissions won't go back up. The new rules take in to account economic impact, Mercury emissions won't increase, they most likely won't be cut much more with current technology. The thresher samples are new, before it was a blanket recommendation. Besides the emissions aren't very high in Georgia or Florida, the highest levels are in the rust belt and those emissions aren't likely to have much of an impact on the gulf.

[luckywsp]

Since the scrubbers are already installed what is the point in rolling back the regulations? Just curious on your take. Would there be a financial reason for any of the plants to remove them again?

[doomtrpr_z71]

The regulations in question were the next step essentially, the roll back just keeps them from being implemented, most of the big plants already meet it anyway. The number one target for the econazis is plant scherer in Juliette ga, it's the number one source of co2 in the us, it's number one because of how much power it generates. No scrubbers will be pulled out, they make the power companies money now because the scrubbed material is sold to make fertilizer.