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...salmon and other varieties that breed in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives in the open seas); they would have first rights to harvest these species and would be allowed to license foreigners to take the rest. Management of wide-ranging oceanic species such as tuna, swordfish and whales would be left to existing (and not always effective) international fishing commissions...
When a New York chemistry professor announced that he had found mercury in canned tuna last December, the Food and Drug Administration began removing thousands of cans from grocery shelves for testing. Most of the tuna was subsequently pronounced safe for human consumption. Not so for swordfish. Last week FDA Chief Charles Edwards warned the public that 95% of all samples of swordfish tested were contaminated with mercury. Only 5% of 853 samples contained mercury below the .5 parts per million safety limit set by the FDA. The average level was twice that. Therefore, said Dr. Edwards...
...reinforce a vague feeling that life is slipping out of control. Take mercury, a poison that can destroy brain and nerve cells. Last spring dangerous concentrations of the metal were found in fish from the Great Lakes region. By year's end, mercury had also turned up in tuna, swordfish and Arctic seals. Suddenly it seemed clear that the poison, an industrial waste, had tainted the oceans to an alarming if still unknown degree...
Mercury and Oil. Bruce McDuffie, a bearded chemist at the State University of New York at Binghamton, is the man who recently discovered mercury in U.S. canned tuna (TIME, Dec. 21). In Rome, he reported also finding high mercury levels in commercial swordfish. Reason: according to an American paper presented at the Rome conference, industry is now dumping 5,000 tons of mercury into the oceans each year. Because fish hold mercury in their systems for as long as 500 days, the contamination can travel over vast areas...
Fair, who thrives on Sunday church and swordfish steak, is always in motion. He treats patients in his Boston office every morning, scurries from Harvard athlete to Harvard athlete between lunch and dinner, and then often finishes the day with evening house calls...