Local Official in Canada: Test fish for Fukushima contamination – “It’s a very, very important issue and quite frightening” – Concern over radioactive pollution growing

Title: Nuclear meltdown’s effect on B.C. fish unclear – Opinion
Source: Times Colonist (Victoria, B.C.; Canada.com network)
Author: Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Date: August 21, 2013

Nuclear meltdown’s effect on B.C. fish unclear

Concern is growing that radioactive water from a damaged nuclear plant in Japan could affect fish in B.C.

Karla Robison, Ucluelet’s manager of environmental and emergency services, wants Ucluelet council to ask senior levels of government to support a study of chemicals in fish.

“We could work with local folks who are out fishing to get tissue samples and make sure there are no problems with the fish,” said Robison [...] “It’s a very, very important issue and quite frightening,” she said. [...]

Robison wants to see an ecotoxicologist work on a study with local First Nations [...]

“Given the thousands of kilometres between Japan and Canada’s west coast, any radioactive material that might have been carried eastward via wind currents was dispersed and diluted over the ocean long before it reached Canada,” Health Canada said. [...]

See also: Canadian University Scientist: Test seafood for Fukushima contamination — Continuous inputs for 2 years and counting will lead to ample opportunity for re-concentrating up food chain — Simply not enough being done on this side of Pacific

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