03-09-2004, 10:12 PM
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]SPRINGFIELD, MA—The Northeast region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced it's testing hatchery-raised salmon and other fish for dioxin and other pollutants because of fears they could be picking up contaminants from commonly used hatchery feeds. [/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Marvin Moriarty, Northeast regional director for the USFWS, says the tests were conducted after a study found farm-raised salmon possess significantly more chemicals, including dioxins, than wild salmon.[/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The study, published last month in the journal "Science," suggested the pollutants came from PCBs in the fish oil and meal fed to farm-raised salmon. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]Marvin Moriarty, Northeast regional director for the USFWS, says the tests were conducted after a study found farm-raised salmon possess significantly more chemicals, including dioxins, than wild salmon.[/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The study, published last month in the journal "Science," suggested the pollutants came from PCBs in the fish oil and meal fed to farm-raised salmon. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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