barbaric salmon in the Pacific Northwest and investment banker on Wall Street have a lot more in common than you ’d ever carry : they ’re both dusty - blooded ; they ’re both soulless ; and apparently , they ’re both pump full of cocain and antidepressants – except the fish did n’t prefer their lifestyles .
According to a theme by the Seattle Times , research worker have found an " alphabet soup of drug " in tissue paper sampling of young king salmon salmon and cloud amniotic fluid border Puget Sound , which let in more drug than Keith Richards ' carry - on during theSticky Fingersera : Aleve , caffein , Darvon , Flonase , nicotine , OxyContin , Paxil , Tagamet , Tylenol , Valium , and Zoloft . And that ’s not even counting other chemicals like antibiotic drug , DEET , and distaff reproductive hormone .
The full effect were issue in thescientific daybook Environmental Pollution , which explain in its synopsis that researchers found " 81 analytes in effluent , 25 analytes in estuary water system , and 42 analytes in Pisces the Fishes tissue . " That ’s all to say : the waste water supply had lots of pollutant , small bodies of water less , and juvenile Salmon River a mid - range .
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Now , to be clear , scientist doubt the chemical buildup would affect humanity , as masses do n’t eat young , migrating Oncorhynchus tshawytscha or sculpin ( another diminished fish ) , and area drinking water comes from the cascade – moderately much as sharp and clear as you’re able to get . That does n’t mean everyone should dismiss the chemically modify ocean life sentence , however .
“ You have to wonder what it is doing to the Pisces , ” Jim Meador , an environmental toxicologist say the theme .
In fact , fish migrating in estuaries of Puget Sound " die at twice the rate of Pisces elsewhere " and nobody knows how being hopped up on the entire contents of a medicine storage locker will regard the fish ’s power to procreate , transmigrate , and stave off disease . to boot , no psychometric test were done on organisms higher and lower in the solid food chain , so the broad impingement has not been value .
Suffice it to say : do n’t go float in estuary near Puget Sound . peculiarly if you ’re a juvenile chinook salmon .
But if that ’s the case : holy shucks ! Those drugs enabled you to use a computer and record English !
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