WTF are we gonna do??

It probably will not be an issue for sport fishers but the commercial guys and seiners might have a harder time depending on the concentration when it gets here.

thanks Fishmaster dude for starting this thread.  The Fukushima trash coming to Hawaii now is a concern, especially the fact that the stuff is HOT!

I'm an older dude (two grandchildren).  I lost my Dad to cancer    I'm not gonna fish it....

especially the fact that the stuff is HOT!

Is that in fact the case?  The time series was that the Tsunami happened before the large radiation releases.  Perhaps the debris was contaminated by water flushed from the plant but I can not imagine that the volume would have been enough to contaminate the entire debris field with radiation.  I am curious if there is any documentation of this?

"Kris McElwee, Pacific Islands coordinator for NOAA’s marine debris program in Hawaii, said it’s difficult to tell at this point what has sunk and what still remains. He said it was highly unlikely that the refuse is radioactive because it had been swept out to sea before the nuclear plant meltdown in Fukushima."

Just musing on the "hotness" of the debris, I would think that *most* of it would be pretty low level, and it has a few years to go. That said, its not us adult folks that need to worry so much as it is the youth that are still growing.

I don't have any real facts about the radioactivity of the floating mess though.

to continue the musings.......

Where it true which it is not............

It could make for cool glow in the dark night fishing 

It could make for cool glow in the dark night fishing 

when life hands you lemons........say screw the lemons and go fishing!

Im not that optimistic about it not being hot. It washed right into the path of the radiation cloud that moved east. The fallout reports we got were from the land to the west- and were/are highly under reported. Just because the GE puppet lame stream media has quit reporting on it, does not mean the largest nuclear disaster in history is over. The site continues to spew death daily. I'm particularly worried about sea water contamination. I've read horrifying results of tests done on plankton far from the site. Cesium does not simply disappear in our lifetime.

  I think the majority of it will wind up un the trash vortex, everything else wind up riding the shelf currents breaking up the major debris fields.  We'll see some but not like the "experts" are predicting.

I agree with this. I also don't think much of it is contaminated or will be by next year. Anything that does make it here probably won't be worth much. Just my 2 cents.