Zija's Uncle Russ

Word comes today (reprinted in The Huffington Post among other blogs and news wires)that fish showing up in the Tokyo fish market are ABOVE any safety standard for harmful radiation.

~ Uncle Russ

Some tuna off the U.S.’s west coast have tested positive for radioactive contamination thought to be traceable to last year’s nuclear disaster in Japan.

Radioactive Tuna Found Near California

Last year’s crop sits in storage, deemed unsafe to eat, but Toraaki Ogata is back at his rice paddies, driving his tractor trailing neat rows of seedlings. He’s living up to his family’s proud, six-generation history of rice farming, and praying that this time his harvest will not have too much radiation to sell.

Japanese Farmers Hope For Radiation-Free Rice

Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.

Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Crossed the Pacific to U.S.