{"id":5591,"date":"2020-06-30T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T17:21:42","slug":"mercury-widespread-in-chesapeake-bay-headwaters-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/mercury-widespread-in-chesapeake-bay-headwaters-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Journal: Mercurio generalizado en los peces de las cabeceras de la bah\u00eda de Chesapeake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bayjournal.com\/news\/fisheries\/mercury-widespread-in-chesapeake-bay-headwaters-fish\/article_da8111dc-bacd-11ea-a8f0-3b75e4642792.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mercury widespread in Chesapeake Bay headwaters fish<\/strong><\/a>, Bay Journal, Jeremy Cox, June 30, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Because methylmercury levels intensify with each step up the food chain, the USGS scientists found the highest amounts in larger fish, including some of the region\u2019s most prized sportfish.<\/p>\n<p>Striped bass, a gamefish popular on restaurant menus, had the most mercury in its meat of the 32 fish tracked in the study, with a typical concentration of 0.31 parts per million. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set a consumption limit for mercury of 0.3 parts per million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are lots of people out there recreationally consuming that [fish],\u201d said Betsy Nicholas, executive director of Waterkeepers Chesapeake. \u201cThese people don\u2019t realize what they\u2019re ingesting and how much of a detrimental impact that can have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USGS Report:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/center-news\/mercury-bioaccumulation-chesapeake-bay-watershed?qt-news_science_products=1#qt-news_science_products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercury Bioaccumulation in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USGS report: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/mission-areas\/environmental-health\/science\/bioaccumulation-mercury-fish-varied-species-and-location\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bioaccumulation of Mercury in Fish Varied by Species and Location in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed\u2014Summary of Existing Data and a Roadmap for Integrated Monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercurio generalizado en peces de la cabecera de la Bah\u00eda de Chesapeake, Bay Journal, Jeremy Cox, 30 de junio de 2020. Debido a que los niveles de metilmercurio se intensifican con cada escal\u00f3n en la cadena alimentaria, los cient\u00edficos del USGS encontraron las mayores cantidades en peces de mayor tama\u00f1o, incluyendo algunos de los peces deportivos m\u00e1s apreciados de la regi\u00f3n. La lubina rayada, un pez de caza popular en los men\u00fas de los restaurantes, ten\u00eda la mayor concentraci\u00f3n de mercurio... <a title=\"Bay Journal: Mercurio generalizado en los peces de las cabeceras de la bah\u00eda de Chesapeake\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/mercury-widespread-in-chesapeake-bay-headwaters-fish\/\" aria-label=\"Leer m\u00e1s sobre Bay Journal: Mercurio extendido en peces de cabecera de Bah\u00eda de Chesapeake\">Lee mas<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[662,659,660,661],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waterkeepers-in-the-news","category-fisheries-oysters","tag-fish-contamination","tag-mercury","tag-striped-bass","tag-usgs","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waterkeeperschesapeake.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}