Months on from the Fukushima nuclear accident, radioactivity has been found in one of the Pacific Oceans most iconic Fish – the Blue Fin Tuna.                                                            

                          via inhabitat.com                                                  via fis.com

Scientists from the Universities of Stanford and Stony Brokk say the fish would have picked up the radioactive substance (-134 cesium and -137 cesuim) while swimming in Japanese waters. These scientists say that the contaminants sink slowly thus allowing for the fish to swim through them and pick up the pollutants. 

Obviously the large volumes of contaminated water that escaped from the reactors into the sea have had something to do with the fifteen (15) samples of fish caught from as far away as the Californian Coast (U.S.A).

Apparently the radioactivity is well within safe limits, and researchers seem to be more excited by the fact that this illustrates how migratory species can carry such pollution over vast distances.

The thing that interests me is this: distance between Japan and California is  8 632.45 km, whereas the distance between Papua New Guinea and Japan is almost half that distance at 4 770.62 km! Does this impact the fresh fish that we are eating in Papua New Guinea in any way?