http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/21/surprisingly-fertilizer-and-sewage-runoff-boosts-egyptian-fisheries/ 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:44:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/21/surprisingly-fertilizer-and-sewage-runoff-boosts-egyptian-fisheries/comment-page-1/#comment-17392 Sarah Badr Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:46:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/21/surprisingly-fertilizer-and-sewage-runoff-boosts-egyptian-fisheries/#comment-17392 As a former Cairo resident, this news is worrying. My concern is that despite the increase in Nile fish stocks helping to provide the nation's impoverished with an adequate source of protein in the midst of what is often a very meagre diet, the contaminants causing surplus might have adverse affects on their health. I suppose a similar argument is pivotal in the GM debate throughout the EU. But whereas in the EU there is close scrutiny and research carried out when matters of public health are in stake, that vital element is sorely lacking in the Egyptian equation. A sad fact to consider when people living in the nation's unbearably overpopulated urban centres already have to contend with one of the world's highest rates of pollution. As a former Cairo resident, this news is worrying. My concern is that despite the increase in Nile fish stocks helping to provide the nation’s impoverished with an adequate source of protein in the midst of what is often a very meagre diet, the contaminants causing surplus might have adverse affects on their health. I suppose a similar argument is pivotal in the GM debate throughout the EU. But whereas in the EU there is close scrutiny and research carried out when matters of public health are in stake, that vital element is sorely lacking in the Egyptian equation. A sad fact to consider when people living in the nation’s unbearably overpopulated urban centres already have to contend with one of the world’s highest rates of pollution.

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