Ethoxyquin: Added to Keep Fish Meal from Bursting into Flames, May Be a Carcinogen

 I read an article about the curious history of a potential carcinogen that caught on in the 1970s as an additive to prevent fish meal from breaking out in spontaneous combustion in ships holds. Several dozen ships fires began with fish meal so ethoxyquin was readily applied. It is used to feed farmed fish these days and except for a few countries that have banned it the chemical continues to be ingested by the farmed fish you may eat. About half of the fish consumed by human sin the world are farmed fish.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14102026/ethoxyquin-fire-retardant-in-seafood-chain/

At least Peruvian fish have stopped consuming fish meal treated with ethoxyquin so Americans eating fish from Peru have only enough tartar sauce to worry about. Wild caught Alaska salmon may lack ethoxyquin and instead have only microplastics and the usual suspects shared with all open sea fish swimming through a chemical soup including radiation.

Red Chris Mine in Canada Presents Dangers for American Fish Downstream

 There is a proposed expansion of the Red Chris mine in Canada upstream of the Stikine River from Wrangell. It is an open pit mine and they hope to make tunnels through substrate and then blast to collapse the overhead and extract low grade ore from the  rip rap for rock crushing.  The mining technique is called block caving.

Water running through new underground channels take toxic minerals with it, and that can persist for centuries. Good luck with getting Canadians to be concerned about downstream American fish. There are a couple of books on U.S. experience with the problem. I doubt the current President would care.

https://riveroflostsouls.com/river-of-lost-souls/

https://islandpress.org/books/leadville#desc