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Originally Posted by Eskimo
The fish that have the highest levels of mercury and PCBs are the predators that live a long time and eat a lot of fish like bass and pickerel. Those toxins are trapped in small fish and passed up the food chain. The predators multiply the background levels of mercury thousands of times by eating hundreds of small fish in their lifetime.
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exactly... biomagnification.
and one more reason to like fast growing, hard fighting, clean living panfish!
