A "fillet" of salmon can easily weigh many kilograms, and will rarely be as tiny as 175 grams (that would be a juvenile fish). Your visualization aid needs aid.

You know - if one more journalist prints the Boeing crap quotes - i.e., "detrimental to jobs and the economy" - without pressing for some real information to back that claim up they need to go back to journalism internships. Yes it's scaremongering - and no one seems to be insisting on getting any source material from the mongerers - which chemical, which standard is it that they can't address? Where's the report, independent analysis etc? Boeing claims repeatedly that the sky is falling - yet those claims, to my knowledge, have never been documented.

TheStranger doesn't employ real journalism and is mostly for entertainment and sex. It's important to remember that.

Ugh, Inslee. He has a knack for doing this shit. Pick a side. If you make nobody happy, it means you failed.

Nice drawing by Levi Hastings.

Scr3w Boeing

They already did that to us

If we don't make a good faith effort now then all our asses will be on the line. The increasingly toxic stew sloshing around in the Salish Sea will increasingly harm more than just Native Americans and Asian and Pacific Islander communities and that's bad news for everyone.

It might cost money, it might be bold, but the lives of your neighbors and the future you leave your children depend on healthy fish and clean waters and that means hard work. Ridiculous efforts to push profit over people only harms us all in the end.

Even if the standards for pollution protection go up, as in the case of Oregon Fish Consumption Rate to the improved protection level, since the state legislature sees environmental monitoring as essentially being politically subversive, they institutionally and pervasively prevent the state agencies from funding prioritization that would allow adequate sampling and subsequent detection of pollution. The agencies responsible for water and public health protection are not free to do their jobs of environmental protection because they can't get the legislators to fund monitoring. Standards don't do any good without the legislators understanding that their refusal to provide for integrity of environmental assessment is fiscally irresponsible in that it perpetuates our water quality mistakes which we then have to continue to pay for with our health and money over and over into the future... such a waste of societal wellbeing potential. This team is in bad need of some good coaching.