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Pollution on our plate: Kalk Bay fisher Michael Howell holds up a brace of Cape bream. A recent scientific study has found these and other fish landed at Kalk Bay contain pharmaceutical and industrial chemical compounds in their flesh as a result of ocean pollution. Photo: Steve Kretzmann
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Pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals found in fish caught off Cape Town’s coast

The ocean around Cape Town is so polluted that pharmaceutical and industrial chemical compounds are accumulating in the flesh of fish caught off the coast. Scientists from the University of the Western Cape’s chemistry department have…

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