[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS: "Clammer is injured dredging up old bomb, chowder tossed"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Clammer is injured dredging up old bomb, chowder tossed

by RANDALL CHASE and JOSH CORNFIELD
Associated Press/Wilmington News Journal (DE)
August 12, 2016


A fishing crew apparently pulled up unexploded ordnance while clamming, leading to a fisherman being hospitalized with second-degree burns and the destruction of more than 700 cases of chowder at a Delaware facility, officials said.

It’s unclear what the ordnance was, but fishing vessels along the Atlantic Coast routinely dredge up munitions, including mustard agent, that was dumped at sea decades ago when environmental laws were far more lax.

The crew of the fishing vessel the William Lee found what they believed was an old or discarded ordnance canister on Aug. 2 and threw it back into the ocean 30 miles east of Barnegat Inlet, Johnson said.

Almost a week later the incident was reported to authorities, setting off a string of events that is prompting the voluntary destruction Friday of 704 cases of Classic Tureen Renaissance Formula New England Clam Chowder processed at the Sea Watch International plant in Milford.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2016/08/12/clammer-injured-dredging-old-bomb-chowder-gets-tossed/88622864/

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Lenny Siegel
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