03-10-2004, 11:36 AM
[quote name='Squid-Freak' date='Jul 30 2004, 10:22 AM']<img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blueboxbullet.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ink' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blueboxbullet.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ink' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blueboxbullet.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ink' /> You know what .... the Squidding DownTown at the piers maybe good, but have you guys lost your sense of smell??? The squid and the fish caught there in the Seattle WaterFront has a nasty smell to it due to all the Ferry and Boat traffic. If you don't believe me, try comparing the smell of the squid from DownTown Seattle and the squid caught further south at Des Moines Pier and Redondo Pier. In fact, try comparing it with the Squid caught across the bay at Alki Beach in West Seattle. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />Â Oh yeah, I bet the acidity level on the squid is off the charts from all the chemicals and stuff in the water. Check it out folks .... in fact, I am going to get one of those acid balance test kits and conduct my own research this year. I will report it back to Glen and all of you local Seattle Squidders.
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I think acidity is the least of your problems. Mercury, pcbs and heavy metals along with petroleom and chemical waste from one of the most industrialized waterways on the west coast. You are literally eating squid out of an EPA Superfund site. PCB levels are measured in parts per million here...NOT parts per billion as in most places. ANYTHING that grows and lives in Elliot bay is toxic!!! And many of the toxins (PCB's) are the type that hurt your unborn kids and you in 20 plus years.
I am not being alarmist or green or any of that crap.... You folks have got to realize that just because the piers are lined with people squidding does not change the fact that Elliot bay and the Duwamish river is one of the top 100 EPA Superfund sites and ranked in the top 250 most polluted waterways in the world!!!
Look at the millions of dollars they are spending at the terminals just south of the cruise ship terminal. Those guys shipping dirt out of there in plastic lined rail cars are not doing it for fun OR free. Thats millions of your tax dollars at work!!!
It never ceases to amaze me that people will eat this crap for 20 plus years and then can't figure out why they are dying of cancer at 50.
Also realize that the concentrations of mercury and PCB's diminish rapidly as you leave Elliot Bay. And migratory fish like Salmon spend very little time in the Elliot Bay food chain.
Squid spend their entire lives in a very small area and they are in the middle of the food chain. They eat shrimp, among other things and the shrimp in elliot bay are toxic bombs. Eat squid at your own risk???? I guess. I'll catch mine somewhere else.
Keep in mind I work in and around the Duwamish watershed. I know the location of several hundred monitering wells. I have seen the lab results of mud and bottom sediment samples taken from that area. You guys are nuts to eat squid from there!!!!!
' />Â Oh yeah, I bet the acidity level on the squid is off the charts from all the chemicals and stuff in the water. Check it out folks .... in fact, I am going to get one of those acid balance test kits and conduct my own research this year. I will report it back to Glen and all of you local Seattle Squidders.[right][post="2837"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post][/right][/quote]
I think acidity is the least of your problems. Mercury, pcbs and heavy metals along with petroleom and chemical waste from one of the most industrialized waterways on the west coast. You are literally eating squid out of an EPA Superfund site. PCB levels are measured in parts per million here...NOT parts per billion as in most places. ANYTHING that grows and lives in Elliot bay is toxic!!! And many of the toxins (PCB's) are the type that hurt your unborn kids and you in 20 plus years.
I am not being alarmist or green or any of that crap.... You folks have got to realize that just because the piers are lined with people squidding does not change the fact that Elliot bay and the Duwamish river is one of the top 100 EPA Superfund sites and ranked in the top 250 most polluted waterways in the world!!!
Look at the millions of dollars they are spending at the terminals just south of the cruise ship terminal. Those guys shipping dirt out of there in plastic lined rail cars are not doing it for fun OR free. Thats millions of your tax dollars at work!!!
It never ceases to amaze me that people will eat this crap for 20 plus years and then can't figure out why they are dying of cancer at 50.
Also realize that the concentrations of mercury and PCB's diminish rapidly as you leave Elliot Bay. And migratory fish like Salmon spend very little time in the Elliot Bay food chain.
Squid spend their entire lives in a very small area and they are in the middle of the food chain. They eat shrimp, among other things and the shrimp in elliot bay are toxic bombs. Eat squid at your own risk???? I guess. I'll catch mine somewhere else.
Keep in mind I work in and around the Duwamish watershed. I know the location of several hundred monitering wells. I have seen the lab results of mud and bottom sediment samples taken from that area. You guys are nuts to eat squid from there!!!!!