An evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood
福島第一原子力発電所事故による海洋生物および海産物消費者への放射線被ばくとリスク評価
Nicholas Fisher
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
Hi Dr. Fisher, thank you for your poster. This is very interesting work! I was wondering how you sourced your bluefin tuna, and how that may impact your results. For example, do you randomly buy bluefin tuna from these locations and test them? Do you work with local fishermen to look at certain locale? Do you try to obtain tuna from a large range of locations in the Pacific Ocean?
Thank you!
The tuna were caught by sports fishermen off San Diego California. We took samples from all 15 fish that were available to us in 2011. In the next year we were able to acquire many more samples, also from fishermen off San Diego.