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It is a conundrum, NBC's Robert Bazell confessed. If pregnant women eat plenty of fish, their children have developmental advantages. If pregnant women have mercury in their blood, their children are disadvantaged developmentally. Yet "toxic mercury, mostly from coal-fired power plants, makes its way into the ocean where it can end up in the meat of certain fish."
Bazell's solution was not to stop burning coal to keep the sea unpolluted. Instead he advised pregnant women--and breastfeeding mothers--to avoid fish species that store the mercury in their flesh and to add clean species to their diet. His story offered its advice complete with blub-blub-blubbing sound effects. Avoid swordfish, king mackerel, tilefish; eat salmon, cod, trout. What about tuna? Albacore from a can tends to be safe; tuna steaks for sushi not so much.
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