Chinese Commercial Fish from Toxic Waters
Saturday, December 15, 2007 8:28 AM
By: Newsmax Staff

China has become the world's largest producer and exporter of seafood, as well as the fastest growing provider to the U.S., but a new report suggests their fish may be less than healthy-- and quite possibly lethal.

A page one story in the New York Times, Sat., reports that in China's vast fish farms, one can find ponds of "murky brown water . . . and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia."

China, which has notoriously lax environmental standards, has been using "water supplies contaminated by sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff that includes pesticides." Adding to the mix, the fish ponds themselves add more pollutants to the usable water.

"Our waters here are filthy,â€