Contaminated Fish At Kwajalein?
A senator from the Marshall Islands says chemical contamination of fish is “a public health concern of epic proportion.”
Radio New Zealand has this report about a call for a study of U.S. military base pollution in the Marshall Islands.
A senator from Kwajalein says chemical contamination of fish in the area is “a public health concern of epic proportion.”
The story adds:
Our correspondent said the contamination issue was on the agenda following the release last year of U.S. Army reports that showed significant levels of PCBs — polychlorinated biphenyls — in the waters around the U.S. missile defence base on the atoll. Giff Johnson said because Marshall Islanders eat the whole fish their exposure to the cancer causing pollutants is much higher than for others eating fish.
In a related story, 70 years after nuclear tests in the region, Bikini Atoll may still be too radioactive for resettlement.
Read Civil Beat’s own reporting on the the Marshall Islands, the testing and the Compact of Free Association.
