Keith Thomas wrote:
>
> Tom Bridgeland wrote on 30 September:
>
> > Fish do not have much more mercury
> > now than fish hundreds of years ago,
> > according to an article I read.
> > Can't blame everything on humans.
>
> Tom
>
> (1) Do you have a reference to the article; Id be interested in pursuing
> this topic as I don't want to get it wrong.
>
> (2)  I have always understood that the levels of mercury in the oceans had
> risen sharply this century and a prime source was from coal burning power
> plants.  See these two summaries of the situation


No, sorry, it was a long time ago, and, your understanding
sounds reasonable to me. But the oceans have been the dump
of the world since forever, they have always been full of "contaminants".