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Madison Group Wants Warnings About Eating Fish
An environmental group wants Dane County to post signs at 25 popular fishing spots warning anglers of possible health risks from eating too many fish they catch.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 --- 10 a.m.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- An environmental group wants Dane County to post signs at 25 popular fishing spots warning anglers of possible health risks from eating too many fish they catch.
The Madison Environmental Justice Organization says families who regularly eat those fish may be exceeding what are considered safe levels of the toxins that build up in fish.
Group spokesman Jim Powell says many of those who eat locally caught fish are poor non-English-speaking families who fish to feed their families. He says the group's survey found that the amount of fish they eat can exceed state advisories.
The Madison-Dane County Health Department is considering a pilot program that would post advisory signs at two or three locations to see how effective they are.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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it's all a county conspiracy anyway! see, the county knows the lakes are polluted, so they don't care if poor people eat the fish, b/c that will eventually make them sick, which passes the burden onto the privately owned hospitals to deal with, and since the hospitals know they'll never see a penny for taking care of these people they do less than minimal cares, so the people die, then society is happy, b/c the county isn't paying out welfare benefits, or food benefits, the hospitals aren't suffering from jammed up emer. rooms b/c these people don't have ins. so they use the E.R. like a doctor's office for every little thing, or wait until it gets so bad it is a 100K problem needing fixing! Can't you see the conspiracy machine at work here? Mayor dave is a big supporter of dirty lakes too, b/c homeless or low income people clutter up his avenue into the city! the lakes have been filthy for 25 yrs! why do you think the county/ city hasn't posted them yet? they want to kill poor people!
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How will the efficacy of such a program (a few signs) be monitored??? Sheesh. It's been common knowledge for a quarter of a century now not to eat the fish caught in our local lakes. My ob/gyn ordered me to eat no locally caught fish during my pregnancy in 1983 as the mercury levels exceeded safe limits then....
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So he states it's many non-speaking english people who are eating alot of fish. What language do you print the signs in? There are many different languages that can be used. Better have a BIG SIGN!
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