A word from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger about fish

by YankeeJim | May 1, 2010 at 05:12 am

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When I lived on the San Francisco Bay, I became immediately aware that the United States Navy so polluted the bay that it would take millions of years for nature to clean itself up. Not having that long to wait, I decided to be very careful about what I ate and from where it came when it comes to seafood.

Here is a current advisory for instance: “Health Advisory: OEHHA recommends that sport harvesters not take or eat mussels from the bayside shoreline on the west and south sides of Ballena Boulevard and that recommends that anglers should include mussels and other shellfish as they follow the existing San Francisco Bay and Delta region fish consumption advisory.”

As I watch how we Americans are now letting the Gulf of Mexico become spoiled by BP, I just wonder what the hell we are thinking. Is anyone thinking?

The following information is brought to you by California’s governor.

“San Francisco Bay and Delta Region

Because of elevated levels of mercury, PCBs, and other chemicals, the following interim advisory has been issued. A final advisory will be issued when the data have been completely evaluated.

Women beyond childbearing age and men should eat no more than two meals per month of San Francisco Bay sport fish, including sturgeon and striped bass caught in the delta. (One meal for an adult is about eight ounces).

Women beyond childbearing age and men should not eat any striped bass over 35 inches.

Women of childbearing age, pregnant, nursing mothers, and children should not eat more than one meal of fish per month. In addition, they should not eat any striped bass over 27 inches or any shark.

This advisory does not apply to salmon, anchovies, herring, and smelt caught in the bay; other sport fish caught in the delta or ocean; or commercial fish.

Richmond Harbor Channel area: In addition to the above advice, no one should eat any croakers, surfperches, bullheads, gobies or shellfish taken within the Richmond Harbor Channel area because of high levels of chemicals detected there.”