Algae-munching fish clean up Chinese lake: official media

[formercia]

Source: Yahoo





Thu Feb 21, 12:35 AM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese authorities are using algae-munching fish to clean up one of the country's most polluted lakes -- and after their diet of toxins they will be sold on to consumers, state media said Thursday.
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More than 50,000 silver carp fry have been introduced into Chaohu lake and another 1.55 million will be added in the next 20 days, said Wu Changjun, from the Chaohu Fishery Administration, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Each carp is expected to have gobbled between 40 and 50 kilogrammes (88 to 100 pounds) of blue algae when it reaches its adult weight, with each chomp of the sludge helping to clean up the toxic lake, the report added.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080221/sc_afp/chinaenvironmentpollutionfishoffbeat

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Read this article and decide if you ever want to eat seafood from China.

[trusty elf]

1. Sweeping the problem under the rug, Chinese-style.

They're even worse than the * administration when it comes to the environment.

Seafood from China? No thanks!

Off-topic, but anybody seen this pic?

Another Chinese toy recalled:

[formercia]

2. The problem is:

That the Chinese officials have not a clue that selling polluted fish to the public is not a good thing to do and then they make it worse by announcing the plan in public.

Having a vague idea of how antiquated the Chinese pollution controls in their factories are, if the have any at all, makes you wonder what kind of pollutants those factories are dumping in the lake.

[saigon68]

3. You will "Glow in the Dark" after eating these fish

Like the Bullheads that come out of the Fox River in N. E. Wisconsin.

The City hired a Hmong speaking interpreter to tell the recent immigrants from Laos, who congregate by the hundreds on the banks in the summer, not to eat the fish.

They are hundreds of times more toxic than the Federal law allows for "inspected sea food"

[mainegreen]

4. The fish will be sold on to consumers.

China really doesn't care do they? If it drives down population, it must be good!

[formercia]

5. Concentrate all the toxins in the fish

and sell the fish for human consumption. Now, there's an idea.

[dysfunctional press]

6. well, they do have an overpopulation problem...

nt

[saigon68]

7. Yes but dying from stomach and liver cancer doesn't

sound like FUN to me