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What can mercury do to a person?
 Mercury can cause Lung cancer, headaches,
 coughing, chest pain, and difficulty breathing; It may
 also cause soreness of the mouth, loss of teeth,
 nausea, and diarrhea. A very high exposure to
 mercury can damage your kidneys.
Where does mercury come from?
 The mercury comes from burning coals as well as
 chlorine plants and recycling of auto metal scraps and
 the fuels from factories and cars.
What are ways that mercury
gets into your body?
 Mercury enters your body four ways, breathing the
 emissions from coal-fired power plants, by your skin
 and by contaminated food and drinking contaminated
 water.
What are the most common symptoms of
mercury poisoning?

 They cause headache, memory loss, trouble
 performing complex tasks, depressed mood, metallic
 taste in your mouth, joint or muscle pain, chest pain
  dizziness or faintness and amnesia.
How does it go in the fish/habitats
 Degassing of mercury from rock, soils, and surface
  waters, or emissions from volcanoes and from human
  activities.
 Movement in gaseous form through the atmosphere.
 Deposition of mercury on land and surface waters.
Is mercury only found in fish?
 Mercury is not only found in fish they are also
 found in daily products like , meats , eggs , pasta ,
 fruits , and vegetables.
The bioaccumulation food chain.
 The fossil fuels enter the water because the fuel
 dissolved toxic mental into the soil and rocks. When
 it rains it makes it ways to the river or stream. Then it
 goes into the bottom of the river and the bacteria.
 Then the bacteria gets eaten by smaller fish and so on
 until humans and bird eat the fish.
What happens to pregnant
women?
 Breast milk, increasing the risk of delays in brain
  development.
 The children may delay in motor skills and learning
  problems.
What kind of fish that we can
  eat often.               Because of low mercury


 The fish we can eat is
 Catfish
 Clams
 Scallop
 Shrimp
 Trout
 Lobster
 oysters
What kind of fish you should not
eat often ?
 The fish that we cannot is   Because of high level of mercury

 Shark
 Large tuna
 Swordfish
What are the limits on fish
consumption in New Brunswick?
 The limits on fish consumption in New Brunswick are
 brook trout (under 29 cm) and other limit of nine
 species to one meal/two weeks.
What can be done to reduce
mercury releases?
  Preventive measures include reducing the use of
   mercury-containing products and raw materials, and
   replacing products and processes that contain or use
   mercury with ones that do not.
  Reduce mercury release by not using your cars and
   instead go for a walk.
BY JUSTIN CORMIER

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Mercury justin

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  • 2. What can mercury do to a person?  Mercury can cause Lung cancer, headaches, coughing, chest pain, and difficulty breathing; It may also cause soreness of the mouth, loss of teeth, nausea, and diarrhea. A very high exposure to mercury can damage your kidneys.
  • 3. Where does mercury come from?  The mercury comes from burning coals as well as chlorine plants and recycling of auto metal scraps and the fuels from factories and cars.
  • 4. What are ways that mercury gets into your body?  Mercury enters your body four ways, breathing the emissions from coal-fired power plants, by your skin and by contaminated food and drinking contaminated water.
  • 5. What are the most common symptoms of mercury poisoning?  They cause headache, memory loss, trouble performing complex tasks, depressed mood, metallic taste in your mouth, joint or muscle pain, chest pain dizziness or faintness and amnesia.
  • 6. How does it go in the fish/habitats  Degassing of mercury from rock, soils, and surface waters, or emissions from volcanoes and from human activities.  Movement in gaseous form through the atmosphere.  Deposition of mercury on land and surface waters.
  • 7. Is mercury only found in fish?  Mercury is not only found in fish they are also found in daily products like , meats , eggs , pasta , fruits , and vegetables.
  • 8. The bioaccumulation food chain.  The fossil fuels enter the water because the fuel dissolved toxic mental into the soil and rocks. When it rains it makes it ways to the river or stream. Then it goes into the bottom of the river and the bacteria. Then the bacteria gets eaten by smaller fish and so on until humans and bird eat the fish.
  • 9. What happens to pregnant women?  Breast milk, increasing the risk of delays in brain development.  The children may delay in motor skills and learning problems.
  • 10. What kind of fish that we can eat often. Because of low mercury  The fish we can eat is  Catfish  Clams  Scallop  Shrimp  Trout  Lobster  oysters
  • 11. What kind of fish you should not eat often ?  The fish that we cannot is Because of high level of mercury  Shark  Large tuna  Swordfish
  • 12. What are the limits on fish consumption in New Brunswick?  The limits on fish consumption in New Brunswick are brook trout (under 29 cm) and other limit of nine species to one meal/two weeks.
  • 13. What can be done to reduce mercury releases?  Preventive measures include reducing the use of mercury-containing products and raw materials, and replacing products and processes that contain or use mercury with ones that do not.  Reduce mercury release by not using your cars and instead go for a walk.