What Quantity of Fish do I need to eat to have enough Mercury for a Thermometer?
Keywords:
Health, Earth Sciences, Environmental pollution, Mercury poisoning, FishAbstract
The presence of elevated mercury levels in ecosystems and farmed fish has been of great concern since the 1970’s,
due to the severe neurotoxin effects. This paper will investigate how mercury works its way up food chains into
the fish we consume, why mercury levels differ between regions of water and species, and lastly how many fish
on average would give us enough mercury for a thermometer.
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