Name your poison

Todd Duncan Tennyson

Todd Duncan Tennyson

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I wonder if anybody has done a study on Divers as far as things like heavy metal and other accumulated toxins like they have with game fish? It would seem to me that over a decade or so of feeding on clams from the lower river, that a fair amount of these toxins could build up.

I wonder how those birds compare to the fish... there are already warnings in the fish and game regs about not eating more than x grams of trout, bluegill etc.


It would be enlightening to see an average of the toxic loads of divers vs popular puddlers.
 
I know there some studies done years ago on the great lakes that showed elevated levels of selenium and other metals in scaup that fed on zebra mussesls in the Great Lakes.
Also there are consumption advisories in the Hudson RIver Valley for mergansers, which have elevated levels of toxins.
I am pretty sure there are other similar studies out there.
 
Todd,

I hunt from Bonneville down to Brownsmead and have never thought about it. I would think the one positive is that they are not there all year like the fish, but like you say after 10 years of feeding on clams who knows.
 
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