High level of cesium detected in sand lances

[thewiseguy]

Small fish caught in waters off the coast of Ibaraki have been found to contain radioactive cesium above the legal limit.

Ibaraki is south of Fukushima prefecture, where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is located.

Ibaraki Prefecture says 526 becquerels of radioactive cesium was detected in one kilogram of sand lances. The acceptable limit is 500 becquerels. It is the first time that higher-than-permitted levels of radioactive cesium have been found in fish.

All local fishery cooperatives in the prefecture have agreed to suspend sand lance fishing at the request of the prefectural government.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 18:58 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_34.html

[wordpix]

1. afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg

[SoCalDem]

3. The ironic thing is that it may end up "saving" the tuna

Japanese people love yellowfin & hunt them to near-extinction..if they are afraid to eat them, maybe they can survive now.. Perhaps enough of them can survive the radioactivity

[closeupready]

4. Yes, it's an ironic twist of fate that wildlife finds a kind of flawed sanctuary near Chernobyl, and

I think you are correct that sea life will also find sanctuary around Fukushima. Not the way anyone would have wanted it to happen, but since it did, we can look at that as the silver lining. :)

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R n/t

[jimlup]

5. Just yesterday I read an article on CNN that

Japanese fish was "safe". It isn't that the media is misreporting. It is that they are almost always guilty of wishful and, naive thinking.