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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Toxins in Lake Michigan fish linked to diabetes
CHICAGO (MCT) — This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity.
That’s because a new study of Great Lakes boat captains over 15 years found a correlation between the chemical DDE and diabetes. Those who ate more fish had more DDE in their blood and were more likely to develop diabetes, according to results published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives in July.
DDE is produced in the bodies of small bottom-feeding fish from ingesting the prevalent pesticide DDT. The chemical transfers to bigger fish when they eat smaller fish and then accumulates in the fat and liver of people who eat lots of what they catch.
‘‘Sports fishermen are at the top of the food chain,’’ said Bruce Fowler, assistant director of science at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which funded the study, along with the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Charter boat captains tend to catch and eat more fish than the average recreational fisherman. But the captains care about their health, said Henry Anderson of the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, who managed the study.
‘‘Many saw that their levels were high from the study and they cut back on their intake of fish,’’ he said.
Exactly how DDE may lead to diabetes is unknown. Another pesticide, Agent Orange, can cause diabetes, but it’s believed to do so in a different way than DDE, said Mary Turyk, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and lead author of the study.
DDE is a byproduct of the pesticide DTT, which was used in farming in the Great Lakes region. It was banned in the United States 37 years ago but continues to be a worrisome pollutant because it is used in other countries to combat malaria and because it remains in the lakes due to the slow turnover of water.
‘‘DDT gets thrown up in the atmosphere and can be deposited by rain and snow attached to particles which settle at the bottom of the lakes,’’ Fowler said. ‘‘The toxins are released by Asia and settle in North America. The jet stream carries a lot of things besides temperature and rain.’’
There is reason for hope, scientists say.
‘‘The good news is that levels in fish and in people have been going down because we have been cleaning up the lakes,’’ Anderson said.
Fisherman Todd Panagopalores, who often can be found at Northerly Island, said he and others worry about what they eat and keep only the smaller fish because they know the bigger fish accumulate the most harmful toxins. That advice is contained in guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health fish advisory, which are based on a monitoring program that test for 14 environmental chemicals in fish.
The advisory sets limits of fish consumption based on levels of PCBs, which can cause cancer, and mercury, which causes nerve damage and birth defects. Though tests for DDE are included, they do not contribute to the advisory because the levels found in local fish do not exceed health-based guidelines, said Ken Runkle, senior environmental toxicologist from the Illinois Department of Public Health. |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | <p>Thanks Dennis good read! interesting they cant find the link between Diabedes and a charter capton! How bout this one... Did you take a look at the average charter captain lately? just walk along the docks in the morning! There 75 to 150 lbs over weight! this is on average and by no means a shot at our good charter captains we all love! Face it! Here is there day in a nut shell.. Get up early!, go to the bait shop on the water and grab a doenut or 3 and a hot cup of coffee wile your clients buy licences and stumble around still in a fog... go out fishing with coolers full of beer , soda and the best sandwiches made in town .... come in.. clean fish refresh yourself ....re-load the coolers with more refreshments and go out again for the late afternoon evening bite..... then come home late and your wife has a plate made for you in the fridge from dinner.... eat go to bed and start over agian in 6 hours. HMMM? more diabetes? I dont know why? Must be DDT! but i would apply for another grant and go back to the drawing board... im sure you will find out that DDT also causes skin cancer.. heart desease, and gives you a higher risk of being lost in a storm in a ship wreck.... oh well .. money well spent though... good work... </p><p> Oh one more thing... if your standing in front of two charter boats with captains standing on deck and your looking to hire? who you gonna pick! my money is on the guy who looks like he has been eating well! lol... for sure!</p>
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin |  nice reply Bradley |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | Sunshine - 9/2/2009 5:51 AM nice reply Bradley |
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Location: Berlin | Aria=area
comming=coming
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pharmacutical=pharmaceutical
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capton=captain
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With just these few words, a single period, a couple spaces and paragraphs seperating your thoughts you will look like the rest of us!! We still love you though bud 
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Bradley:
Don't listen to Rich. I like your uniqueness.
remember that death kills |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | or i could take the time to read what i wrote before hitting send! lol maybe find the spell checker on my browser? oh well just slap comments togather between doing my real job and cant be bothered with such details... and now to work on other non work related items like buying top secret crawler harness componants online for the upcomming MWS event held on the bay of green bay! shhhhhhhh top secret! |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Or another option might be to write your post in MS-Word first then, copy and paste into the post.
But if I get a vote - I say don't change. Reading your posts make me feel like I work for the CIA. I love cracking codes and government work. |
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Location: Waukesha Wisconsin | Bradley,
This one is for you (don't read it rich)
A college professor was conducting an experiment on frogs. In the lab, he had a frog in a dissecting pan. He told the frog to jump, which he did. The professor noted in his journal that the frog responds to verbal commands. The professor then proceeded to cut one of the frogs front legs off. He again commanded the frog to jump, which he did. albeit a somewhat lopsided jump. The professor noted in his journal that the frog continued to respond to verbal commands.
The professor proceeded to cut the frog's other front leg off, and again told it to jump. The frog jumped, and promptly hit itself on his head when it landed. Another notation of following verbal commands. Next, the professor cut off one of the frog's back legs, and commanded the frog to jump. With one leg remaining, the frog attempted a jump. This, too, was noted in the professor's journal. Finally the professor cut the remaining leg from the frog, and commanded the poor creature to jump. The frog remained still. Once again, the command to jump was given, and once again the frog did not move. The professor wrote in his journal...after removing all four legs, the frog became deaf...... |
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | Interesting, Dennis this seems to be a case or perspectives... i would have guessed a sharper individual would have realized he had found a rare endangered eeeer indangered ummm(a little help Rich?) speicies here! Traced the swamp this unique little Deaf frog came from and tested for polutants from a near by industrial plant! then stopped all future expansion anounced the aria as a sanctuary and called the DNR to start an investigation of the soil and water. Poor frog is True! poor little bugger took one for the greator good. Im serprized that after chopping its lil legs off the brilliant mind didnt recognize it looked kinda like a Gobie! possibly a link to the fact that Gobies may not have been transported here from another far away place but have evolved from our own Deaf Frogs that we didnt know existed in the first place. Its amaizing what a few individuals on walleyesFirst can do when we bring it up and dig for the truth... outstanding work! |
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Location: Green Bay, WI | Amazing, that's what I got out of Dennis' story too!
Bradley look me up at Menominee. We can discus those tasty toxins over a tasty beverage.
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | ill be there befishin! the last 5 MWS tournys i dove into i didnt have any pre-fishing done because my partner and i work on saturdays... im going to see if i can get a day off. i usta be a bit of a threat on the bay but if my first 3 or 4 spots dont produce going out blind i dont get onto any hooks till around 11 am! its getting old and if i pull into town early or late that cold beer sounds great! maybe a sammich too? |
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | Hey Bradley! I'll be at the MWS Menominee also. Here's where I am going to catch some pigs:
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LOL!
Good Luck!
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Location: Omro,Wi. | Rich S - 9/2/2009 10:32 AM Aria=area comming=coming serprizingly=surprisingly pharmacutical=pharmaceutical asperin=aspirin uncontroled=uncontrolled statment=statement capton=captain doenut=donut wile=while desease=disease With just these few words, a single period, a couple spaces and paragraphs seperating your thoughts you will look like the rest of us!! We still love you though bud Rich With spellin like that, he is like the rest uf us! I always thought he was either a highly educated individual who, either drank to much beer to type...OR drank two much bere to be edducated...LOL You should sea how I type with two fingers, I have two go fast so I don't forget what I am goin to say. |
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| Dam Horshak! I could read and understand everything you said. lol Bradley and I took the same English class, but we thought it was going to be a harness tying class, We didn't do to well in the class but you should have seen some of our harnesses.
Good luck on the bay guys!
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Location: in the boat off the east shore somewhere | <p>Hey BeFishin.... I need you to crack Horshacks Code's i plugged them into my Gps and it looks to me that he is fishing somewhere between the MOON and the Bermuda triangle.... I dont think i can get there from Menomone... ? I know i am a product of the public ed... but hell ya you should see my harnesses! im having trouble finding my top secret beads! i am not giving my credit card noumber or paypal account to somewhere in china! so for now all you guys are still safe but if i can find some of these killers im going to build a batch of harnesses that when i drop them into the water all we will havta do is drive down the middle of the bay dead center and ill be able to pull fish off every reef and sunken island on both shores! you guys will all be sayin? WTF ? they were here a min ago?</p><p>I would like to add that these top secret beads are so good that i can plant them and grow a giant Beadstalk...(to Horshacks coordinates no doubt) I had lots of them last year but my fishing partner grew fond of them and strung them all togather and lets just say where he has been putting them i dont wanna use them anymore. And before you guys jump all over me on this (I SAID FISHING PARTNER NOT life partner!)</p>
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