What is the Impact of Fukushima on Wildlife in American NorthWest? [View all]

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From Washingtons Blog, via Ritholtz and thebigpicture.com, here.

Seals, Sea Lions, Polar Bears, Bald Eagles, Sea Stars, Turtles, King and Sockeye Salmon, Herring, Anchovies and Sardines In The Western Part of North America All Suffering Mysterious Diseases At the Same Time.
Is it Radiation from Fukushima?

We’ve previous documented that seals, sea lions, polar bears, sea stars, turtles, sockeye salmon, herring, anchovies and sardines on the West Coast of North America are all suffering mysterious diseases … which are killing many. We’ve asked whether this is related to massive releases of radiation from Fukushima. Update.

Sadly, we can now add other wildlife to the list.
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Buz Marthaler, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah co-founder: “It’s just hard to have your national bird in your arms, going through seizures in a way it can’t control — when you can see it’s pain but don’t know what’s happening to it. As a human being, you just have problems with that. And when you lose one, it just grabs your heart. [...] In an average year, we might get one or two, but we’ve received nine so far, and five of those have died. The other four are still in our care. [...] We aren’t ruling out anything.”
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In a second article, EneNews notes:

Juneau Empire, Dec. 29, 2013: [...] the king [chinook] salmon — has fallen from its throne. [...] Alaska has seen unprecedented declines in recent years [...] scientists like Joe Orsi and Jim Murphy, both fisheries research biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are digging deeper into [...] the cause of the startling downward trend. [...] When asked about the potential impact Fukushima may be having on king salmon stocks in the Gulf of Alaska and elsewhere in the state, Orsi would not comment. “I’ve been told to refer you to the (Environmental Protection Agency),” he said, “Because I’m not an expert on the topic.” Calls and emails to the EPA were not returned in time and digging on the federal agency’s site revealed no current information on radiation from the Fukushima disaster. The last posted monitoring results occurred in June of 2011.
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Remember the report about Fukushima a while back where they said there were no high levels of dangerous radiation being reported, then disclosed that the measuring equipment wasn't capable of reading the levels which were present?

Would it be possible to hide dangerous levels and actual damage from from two or three nations for a decade? Seems too incredible, yet we know there is secret information that has been kept from us for a much longer time in our history. There are public monitors out there, such as http://epa.gov/radnet/radnet-data/radnet-seattle-bg.html, or http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ - can they be trusted? When one looks at all those, there seems no reason to have one's hair on fire. Yet Fukushima has been spewing poison into the atmosphere and water for a couple of years now, people are reporting sickness, food is being thrown away.

There is a great motivation to avoid measuring the problem. We've never had a simmering nuclear reactor throwing low-level amounts of ? at us for years, but if it were so very dangerous how would you protect 13 million people in Tokyo, or the population of the entire West portion of the U.S.?

Or is is just much ado about nothing?