Kopec speaks with BDN about mercury versus PFAS in fish
The Bangor Daily News interviewed Diane Kopec, faculty fellow at the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, about the difference between mercury contamination and PFAS contamination in Maine’s fish. Kopec told the BDN that while mercury tends to collect in fish muscle, PFAS contamination appears to be more widespread throughout the fish, which could be more harmful to animals that eat the fish. “When you’re looking at a food web, animals don’t take out the filet and leave the internal organs behind. An animal that eats the fish eats the whole fish,” Kopec said.