.....and they wonder why we can not eat seafood any more...

[Chris-]

I could only pray that one day we stop peeing in our sand box. I sure would like to have fresh "clean" seafood.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_atlantic_ocean_junk

[Charlie]

My dad used to have a commercial fishing license in VA (mostly we caught wild hard clams and gill netted for Croaker). I had the chance to got to several of the seafood handling classes that the VRMC used to put on. I also used to got to clam and oyster plants and crab meat picking plants and to soft crab shedding houses. I've have many chances to talk to the health inspectors in the seafood industry in VA. I found out that California will except seafood from Virginia and Maryland directly without doing things like irradiating it. These are the only two states where this is true. In fact, they won't even except seafood from the Gulf region. As for me, if it doesn't come from Virginia or Maryland, I just don't eat it.