Toxic mercury in fish rising

Toxic mercury in fish rising
Increasing levels of toxic mercury in cod and tuna can cause neurological disorders in children and babies whose mothers eat fish while pregnant, a study by Harvard scientists said. The concentration of methylmercury – an organic compound which can cause severe damage to the brain and nervous system – rose by 23% in cod and by 27% in bluefin tuna in the Atlantic Ocean’s Gulf of Maine over about three decades, it said.… Read the rest