Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The surfeit of lampreys



In yesterday’s Radio 4 Nature programme on the subject of lamprey, one of the contributors said that C19th industrial discharges of chemical pollutants undoubtedly played a major role in the decline in stocks in our rivers.

Lamprey bodies contain very high concentrations of lipids, which just hoover up & store these contaminants in the body.

Another reason to be worried about human obesity.