Help me find answers to this scenario

[zimmy]

Originally Posted by Clammer

JL
I was also @ the meeting & a commercial R/R ask the person from the DEm if the they or the state or anyone /anywhere has evidence to back this up .
She said of all the studies & testing that has been done .............. the only harmful chemical that is coming up in fish is mercury ..........zero on lead, iron, etc ?????????????

Mercury is a chronic bioaccumulation, biomagnification issue. The coat hanger, and ingested lead for that matter, are accute threats. I can supply a veterinarian who can testify what a coat hanger does to the digestive tract of vertebrates. Would that help this committee ? The tests have not been done specifically on striped-bass with those quantities of lead digested, because you would have to capture those specific fish from the wild, which is nearly impossible or set up a controlled experiment where they are fed yo-yo rigged bait. There is plenty of scientific data of the effect of lead on vertebrates. Yo-yoing is for people with short rods.