Just in case anyone was in doubt - it is definitely something to do with nuclear fission. - I suppose some hospital may have dumped their x-ray stuff in a spot near the shrimp-farm, but I sincerely doubt it.
This is Fukushima - coming to haunt us.
[sidebar] I love shrimp. We sould cycle for an hour to go to the beach: my uncle would don a special hand-pushed triangular scoopnet. He would walk, chest-deep, back-and-forth, just on the outer edge of the sandbank, while watching us kids swim in "'t zwin" (translation from Friesian: something like the in-between) - This was a warmer bit of water, and the shrimp were attracted to it, just as we kids were. I could feel them tickling me.
't Zwin was where one could remain in the ocean for about half an hour, before freezing. We would all troop back over the akshully hot sand and dry off, in a lttle cabin (one of a long row, above the hugh tide mark - These quaint huts were essential, for shelter, on a bleak, featureless and sand-windy North Sea beach.
My uncle would pull out a massive pot, and a tiny portable gas-ring and boil all the shrimp, while we huddlled under damp, scratchy towels.. There was a good three pounds of shrimp, all boiled in a bucket of seawater. Those were memorable times. Sitting around for two hours shelling little shrimp... making hot-dog buns, full of shrimp and mayonnaise- how many buns you want? Enough for at least two days of "would you like another?*
My point in that long ramble was: shrimp don't really hang out in schools 'out in the open ocean'. You have a mistaken picture of how this works.
Shrimp like to congregate in harbors and river mouths, or in relative shelter, as I illustrated above: Near the coast, basically. In my childhood, we were catching baby shrimp, that hung out where human babies also happened to like to swim safely, in slightly warmer water.
Most Shrimp in commercial markets are sourced from Farms.
Not caught on the open Ocean.
OK, but the farms are usually near the coastline of the ocean. they are not closed systems.
Also Caesium-137
Just in case anyone was in doubt - it is definitely something to do with nuclear fission. - I suppose some hospital may have dumped their x-ray stuff in a spot near the shrimp-farm, but I sincerely doubt it.
This is Fukushima - coming to haunt us.
[sidebar] I love shrimp. We sould cycle for an hour to go to the beach: my uncle would don a special hand-pushed triangular scoopnet. He would walk, chest-deep, back-and-forth, just on the outer edge of the sandbank, while watching us kids swim in "'t zwin" (translation from Friesian: something like the in-between) - This was a warmer bit of water, and the shrimp were attracted to it, just as we kids were. I could feel them tickling me.
't Zwin was where one could remain in the ocean for about half an hour, before freezing. We would all troop back over the akshully hot sand and dry off, in a lttle cabin (one of a long row, above the hugh tide mark - These quaint huts were essential, for shelter, on a bleak, featureless and sand-windy North Sea beach.
My uncle would pull out a massive pot, and a tiny portable gas-ring and boil all the shrimp, while we huddlled under damp, scratchy towels.. There was a good three pounds of shrimp, all boiled in a bucket of seawater. Those were memorable times. Sitting around for two hours shelling little shrimp... making hot-dog buns, full of shrimp and mayonnaise- how many buns you want? Enough for at least two days of "would you like another?*
That sounds like the absolute best of great times!!! I love shrimp too!
I had to do it, just to keep something pure, in this dirty business.
Depending on where it was sourced from. A company may have been illegally dumping waste.
The dumping of the waste water occurred near Japan. And even then the water was treated repeatedly before being dumped to minimize the rads.
Environmental Laws in quite a few countries are more suggestions than stuff people actually follow. Even in the U.S a lot of illegal dumping happens
OK. Someting to look into, I guess.
My point in that long ramble was: shrimp don't really hang out in schools 'out in the open ocean'. You have a mistaken picture of how this works.
Shrimp like to congregate in harbors and river mouths, or in relative shelter, as I illustrated above: Near the coast, basically. In my childhood, we were catching baby shrimp, that hung out where human babies also happened to like to swim safely, in slightly warmer water.
Fun fact:
Asian aquaculturists suspend pig cages over the grow out ponds & the fish gobble up the droppings. 😋😋😋😋😋
Remember that next time you're buying tilapia, shrimp and other farmed fish where the country if origin is somewhere in Asia.
Also canned sardines from Thailand are truly revolting - they taste like plastic.