There is so much water in the ocean. Incomprehensible amounts of water. That again, is very, very well circulated. Circulation is key. To think we could fuck it up beyond repair is just human ego talking. Has pollution occurred? Yup, no doubt. Enough to make fish into poisonous mutants unfit for consumption? Sorry, not buying it. Show me some data please.You don't think the US, India, and China alone dumping their stuff into the ocean is enough to still fuck up the rest of the world through the oceans and seas it gets passed into? I got no scientific data, but that's a lot of trash over a period of decades.
Here's a couple things about global warming that no one likes to talk about. We are still technically in an ice age, albeit on the tail end of one, so yeah Earth is warming up, no surprises there. You also know that the average temperature across Earth history is a few degrees warmer than what we see in the present day right? Again, no surprises that we see Earth heating up. Another beef I have with global warming reporting (though not really related to anything you said), like the study NASA recently published about melting of the ice sheet on Greenland. It stated, "some melting has occurred the past few days." What the fuck does that even mean? Some melting? That is about as vague and scientifically null as anything I have ever read. And what happened a few days later? Did melting continue, or did it freeze back up?You're a geologist so you may understand how the destruction of the ozone layer, amongst many other things, contributes to global warming, right? They say with this increase in heat on Earth, the water on this planet increases by one degree (Celsius, or Fahrenheit? I don't know). One degree means the world to the ocean as it allows more bacteria to thrive in the waters and fuck with more marine life. Also, increasing the temperature of the water DECREASES the solubility of oxygen in the water, which further devastates the fish.
Who cares about how far the fish swam. It's the water around the fish that is being circulated and moved around. It's not like that water just sits there stagnating. I could very well be wrong, but like I said, I need to see some data before I buy these things. Because in my mind things just don't add up.That was just heat. UV rays from the sun are carcinogens. You don't think the tons of plastic (BPA, which is a carcinogen to humans and can be found in bottled water) in the ocean is toxic to the fish too? Even if we take out plastic, there are plenty of carcinogenic materials we throw away (batteries) that can find their way into the ocean and into the fish we eat.
I know the ocean is deep. If you stuck Mount Everest at the bottom of the trench, it would still be no where near the surface of the ocean. But the more shallower waters, which are closer to shore, it definitely gets "diluted" but not by as much as you might think. It can be just a mile off the coast, which is enough to affect fish that are just passing by and going to other places, only to be caught and consumed some time later.
Now I'm curious: what do you think the furthest a fish has ever swam from the point at which it was spawned? I mean, for a human to go from Spain to, say, West Russia on foot would take forever and a half and would be pretty tough as well. What about for a fish just off the coast of China? You think it'd make it as far as the West coast of Africa? Or Australia?