State issues warning on eating Puget Sound salmon
Puget Sound's chinook salmon, prized by sport fishermen, tribes and endangered orcas alike, are so polluted with toxic chemicals that the state Health Department is advising that children and pregnant women limit how much they eat.
In reality, the advisory will have little effect; nearly all the chinook sold locally are caught outside Puget Sound. And most people don't eat that much chinook.
But the very idea that Puget Sound's iconic salmon have turned toxic has the power to generate powerful emotional reactions.
For state officials and environmentalists, the notice, released in the form of an official advisory urging children and women who might be pregnant to eat Puget Sound chinook no more than once a week, served as "another sign that Puget Sound is sick and we must take action now," said Gov. Christine Gregoire, who is pushing for a new plan to clean up the Sound.
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State issues warning on eating Sound salmon
