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.

14. BY JUSTIN CORMIER