(NaturalNews) Contamination of water supplies and illegal use of
veterinary drugs has led to the severe contamination of Chinese
fish farms, with potentially serious health consequences for
those who eat the fish. China produces 70 percent of the world's
farmed fish, and since the 1980s has become the biggest seafood
exporter in the world. Yet this growth has only exacerbated the
pollution problems already facing China's water sources. The
high density of fish farms in regions like the Fuqing Province
in the south has led to the discharge of huge quantities of
wastewater into already compromised rivers. "Our waters here are
filthy," said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer from Fuqing.
"There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area.
They're all discharging water here, fouling up other farms." The
Chinese government has declared more than half of the rivers in
the country too polluted to drink from. Many sections of
Fuqing's major waterway, the Long River, have been declared too
toxic for any use. Pol