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<H1>Giant radioactive fish cross the Pacific Ocean</H1>
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<div class=yiv2056258164caption>Workers harvest <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna from <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>Maricultura</SPAN>’s tuna pens near <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Ensenada</SPAN>, Mexico. New research found increased levels of radiation in Pacific <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna caught off the coast of Southern California. Scientists said the radiation found in the fish came from Japan’s <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>Fukushima</SPAN> nuclear plant that was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.</div></DIV>
<div><SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>LOS</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>ANGELES</SPAN> – Across the vast Pacific, the mighty <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away – the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance. </div>
<div>“We were frankly kind of startled,” said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings <SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>online</SPAN> Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. </div>
<div>The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that’s still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments. </div>
<div>Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Fukushima</SPAN> <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Dai</SPAN>-<SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>ichi</SPAN> reactors. </div>
<div>But scientists did not expect the nuclear fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world because such fish can metabolize and shed radioactive substances. </div>
<div>One of the largest and speediest fish, Pacific <SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna can grow to 10 feet and weigh more than 1,000 pounds. They spawn off the Japan coast and swim east at breakneck speed to school in waters off California and the tip of <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Baja</SPAN> California, Mexico. </div>
<div>Five months after the <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Fukushima</SPAN> disaster, Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York and a team decided to test Pacific <SPAN id=misspell-17 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> that were caught off the coast of San Diego. To their surprise, tissue samples from all 15 tuna captured contained levels of two radioactive substances – <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>ceisum</SPAN>-134 and cesium-137 – that were higher than in previous catches. </div>
<div>To rule out the possibility that the radiation was carried by ocean currents or deposited in the sea through the atmosphere, the team also analyzed <SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>yellowfin</SPAN> tuna, found in the eastern Pacific, and <SPAN id=misspell-20 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> that migrated to Southern California before the nuclear crisis. They found no trace of cesium-134 and only background levels of cesium-137 left over from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s. </div>
<div>The results “are unequivocal. <SPAN id=misspell-21 class=mark>Fukushima</SPAN> was the source,” said Ken <SPAN id=misspell-22 class=mark>Buesseler</SPAN> of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who had no role in the research. </div>
<div><SPAN id=misspell-23 class=mark>Bluefin</SPAN> tuna absorbed radioactive cesium from swimming in contaminated waters and feeding on contaminated prey such as krill and squid, the scientists said. As the predators made the journey east, they shed some of the radiation through metabolism and as they grew larger. Even so, they <SPAN id=misspell-24 class=mark>weren</SPAN>’t able to completely flush out all the contamination from their system. </div>
<div>“That’s a big ocean. To swim across it and still retain these <SPAN id=misspell-25 class=mark>radionuclides</SPAN> is pretty amazing,” Fisher said. </div>
<div>Pacific <SPAN id=misspell-26 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna are prized in Japan, where a thin slice of the tender red meat prepared as sushi can fetch $24 per piece at top Tokyo restaurants. Japanese consume 80 percent of the world’s Pacific and Atlantic <SPAN id=misspell-27 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna. </div>
<div>The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this summer, when researchers plan to repeat the study with a larger number of samples. <SPAN id=misspell-28 class=mark>Bluefin</SPAN> tuna that journeyed last year were exposed to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen. </div>
<div>Now that scientists know that <SPAN id=misspell-29 class=mark>bluefin</SPAN> tuna can transport radiation, they also want to track the movements of other migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.<BR clear=all></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>-- <BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A><BR></DIV><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-30 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> <A href="http://www.fsr.net/" target=_blank>http://www.fsr.net</A><BR> <SPAN id=misspell-31 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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