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