March 2016 InFORMal Update
Tag Archives: Biotic Monitoring
Dr Cullen Discussing the Fukushima Anniversary with CBC On the Island
Dr. Cullen spoke with Gregor Craigie of CBC’s On the Island today about the status of the Fukushima disaster and radiation five years after the accident.
Listen to the interview.
Presentation to DFO State of the Pacific Ocean
The annual State of the Pacific meeting was held on March 1, 2016 at Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo, BC. We presented this poster to our peers investigating other contemporary phenomenon. Click on the poster to view a larger version.
With Fukushima’s fifth anniversary approaching, we can probably start to relax about radioactive seafood
By Chelsea Harvey
The Washington Post
Published 29 Feb 2016
March 11 will mark the five-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, a series of nuclear meltdowns, triggered by a devastating earthquake-induced tsunami, that released massive amounts of radioactive material and resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Since then, the plant’s damaged drainage system has continued to leak radioactive water into the environment, and one of the biggest enduring public concerns has been the safety of fish caught in the area’s surrounding waters.
No radiation from Japan’s Fukushima disaster found in BC fish
By Bethany Lindsay
Vancouver Sun
Published 23 Feb 2016
Nearly five years after a massive earthquake resulted in the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, researchers in B.C. have found no detectable levels of contamination in fish along the West Coast.
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