Contamination! Do not eat the five poisonous fish on the coast of Southern California

> pollution! Do not eat five poisonous fish on the coast of Southern California. Many Chinese like fishing. On weekends, friends meet up to go fishing at the beach, and then take the trophies home to share with relatives and friends. Always...

pollute! Do not eat five poisonous fish on the coast of Southern California. Many Chinese people like fishing. It has always been a highly praised hobby to meet up with friends to go fishing at the beach on weekends and then take the trophies home to share with relatives and friends. However, recent warnings issued by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and Southern California health units show that fishing on Southern California beaches is allowed, but it is best not to eat the trophies. The number of fish included in the "do not consume" list due to serious pollution has been increased from one fish to five species. The stretch of water from Santa Monica in the north to Seal Beach in Orange County in the south has always been what environmental and health authorities call a "red zone." In addition to white croaker, which must not be eaten, four more "do not eat" fish are now added to the zone - barracuda, topsmelt, black croaker and barred sand bass. Next month, health officials plan to set up warning signs at 24 piers and fishing spots in Southern California to warn anglers to throw landed fish back into the sea because they are contaminated with the pesticide DDT, PCBs and mercury, which are harmful to human health. Health officials were concerned that new Hispanic and Asian immigrants from inland communities who came to the coast to fish did not understand that fish along the Southern California coast had long been contaminated and unfit for consumption, so they decided to put up warning signs to educate people that eating these contaminated fish could lead to cancer, developmental and neurological damage. The non-profit environmental organization "Heal the Bay" has visited Southern California beaches many times in recent years, and its bilingual workers have issued poisonous fish identification cards with picture explanations to anglers. Where do pesticides, mercury and other pollutants in Southern California waters come from? The federal Environmental Protection Agency pointed out that it came from Montrose Chemical Company, the largest DDT manufacturing company in the United States, and had been discharging the pesticide into sewers since the 1940s, eventually flowing into the sea from White Point on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT and PCB, two pesticides, as late as the 1970s, and listed a 17-square-foot area near the mouth of Palos Verdes Shelf as a toxic waste dump to be cleared by the Superfund.