Mollusks polluted not fish

Mollusks polluted not fish

From Kompas

I would like to make a correction to the article about Minamatabyo (Minamata disease) in Kompas on Jan. 8, 1995. The article states that the people of Minamata became ill after eating mercury polluted fish. The pollutant is produced by the Chisso fertilizer plant.

It is not the fish that are polluted but the shellfish. If the fish had been polluted the area affected would be bigger than just Minamata, because fish roam as far as hundreds of miles away.

Mollusks, on the other hand, do not move very far. They stay at the bottom of the sea and are easily polluted by mercury waste.

NUR HARBIANTO

Solo, Central Java