A homeopath takes a look at mercury poisoning.

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Mercury : The Ubiquitous Modern Industrial Poison by Classical Homeopath Robert Lee Dalpé, ND http://www.onlinehomeopath.com/mercb.shtml Example : Impulsiveness; strong impulsiveness: makes split-second emotionally-based decisions; impulses to take lots of drugs and medicines, changes remedies all the time, overdoses and poisons themselves. The anguish level is so great that they constantly seek relief from drugs, medications and alcohol. "Our ideal is not the

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Why worry about mercury poisoning when the best

efforts to conserve and repopulate end in disater

because the Scientists do NOT UNDERSTAND ecology !!!.

 

 

 

 

 

Chesapeake's Rockfish Overrun by Disease

Epidemic Hits Species Hailed for Revival, Then

Weakened by Polluted Waters

 

By Elizabeth Williamson

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, March 11, 2006; Page A01

 

A wasting disease that kills rockfish and can cause a

severe skin infection in humans has spread to nearly

three-quarters of the rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay,

cradle of the mid-Atlantic's most popular game fish.

 

The mycobacteriosis epidemic could carry profound

implications for the rockfish, also known as striped

bass. The fish fuel a $300 million industry in

Maryland and Virginia, but because the bacteria kill

slowly, effects on the stock are only now emerging.

 

 

The past netting season was

The past netting season was " super-good " for catching

fish and prices were good, says Larry Simns, the

Maryland Watermen's Association president. (

 

 

 

The disease also sends a grim message about the entire

bay ecosystem. The rockfish remains bay

conservationists' only success story -- a species

nearly wiped out, then revived by fishing limits.

 

But as the number of rockfish surged, the fish

remained in a body of water too polluted to support

the level of life it once did. That made them

vulnerable to a malady researchers did not see coming

-- a signal, some scientists say, that controlling

fish harvests is no longer enough to ensure long-term

survival of a species.

 

" We used to think that if you got hold of fishing, all

your problems would be solved, " said James H. Uphoff

Jr., a biologist at the Maryland Department of Natural

Resources. " But now all these ecological problems crop

up, and we don't understand them. "

 

Indeed, nearly a decade after mycobacteriosis first

appeared, scientists remain utterly baffled about its

implications, including those for humans. Researchers

know that the Chesapeake, where most rockfish spawn,

also breeds the bacterium and is the epicenter of the

disease. Yet they don't know how or why it appeared,

whether it will spread to other species or if the

infection it causes is always fatal.

 

A new study suggests that since the illness was

discovered among bay rockfish, non-fishing mortality

among them has tripled in the upper bay. But

scientists cannot explain why, at the same time,

anglers are catching plenty of fish.

 

In humans who touch the fish, the microbe can cause a

skin infection known as fish handler's disease, which

is not life-threatening but can lead to arthritis-like

joint problems if untreated. Watermen say the only

sick fish they see are in small, overcrowded rivers

and streams. The netting season that ended Feb. 28

" was a super-good season as far as catching, and a

good season as far as the price, " said Larry Simns,

president of the Maryland Watermen's Association. With

no evidence of health risk from eating the fish,

watermen say, prices have remained stable.

 

But at Ristorante Tosca in downtown Washington, " some

people ask, 'Is it safe?' " chef Massimo Fabbri said

of the rockfish on the menu. Such questions have

prompted Fabbri to buy the restaurant's wild rockfish

from Northern Europe and Ecuador, paying about three

times what he would for local bass. " Wouldn't you? " he

asked.

 

As researchers test a long list of hypotheses, they

say their search for the bacterium's source and

implications highlights the limitations of modern

science when pitted against the complexities of the

wild.

 

" Scientists attempt to unravel things [and] are

supposed to follow the information wherever it leads

us, " said Victor Crecco of the Connecticut Department

of Environmental Protection, author of the mortality

study. " We're going to have to do more work to explain

these contradictions. "

 

For centuries, striped bass fishing has been as rich

in lore as it was in quality. In ideal conditions,

rockfish can live up to 30 years: The biggest on

record was a 125-pound female, landed off North

Carolina in 1891. In this region, charter boat

operators tell of swimsuit-wearing amateurs landing

dozens of the silver-scaled fighters in a day -- the

fish longer than one's arm, bellies made fat on the

teeming schools of menhaden that are a chief food

source.