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adorob t1_jeetmzw wrote

To everyone commenting about eating your catch: fish caught in Boston harbor is and was completely safe to eat. Even caught in front of encore. For two reasons:

  • The water is tidal, and harmful chemicals leaching from the ground get diluted out into the ocean really quickly. The day lily tidal swing in front of encore is 9-12 ft.

  • The fish being targeted there (mostly striped bass, sometimes bluefish, mackerel) spend very little time of their lives in the inner harbor waters and don’t accumulate toxins. They migrate up and down the coast and follow their bait into the harbor during the short summer season. Their bait (bunker, mackerel, pollock, etc) also does not spend their lives in these waters.

Pretty sure that folks commenting here either don’t eat fish at all, or buy farm-raised tilapia and salmon. Fun fact is that farm-raised fish is much more disgusting (bacteria, antibiotics, hormones, parasites) than any Boston harbor-caught wild fish you can get your hands on.

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raven_785 t1_jeex32v wrote

> The water is tidal, and harmful chemicals leaching from the ground get diluted out into the ocean really quickly. The day lily tidal swing in front of encore is 9-12 ft.

This was the argument for dumping sewage into Boston harbor for over 100 years. It doesn't work nearly as neatly as you are making it out to.

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random12356622 t1_jeg4i5x wrote

Aren't we still dumping raw sewage into Boston harbor every time we get more than X number of inches of rain?

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deathtopumpkins t1_jegf1ot wrote

Some, but not much. There's been a big push for a long time now to eliminate combined sewers.

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FortuneLegitimate679 t1_jefd3tu wrote

It’s certainly better than it was. We stopped flounder fishing when I was a kid because they kept having huge tumors. Still wouldn’t take any from around Encore

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powsandwich t1_jefjtjm wrote

Depends on what the contaminants were right. Flounder and shellfish would be fucked if it was PCB contamination because those would settle at the river bottom. Most other fish might be fine in that situation

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