近日，美国科学家发现，从加利福尼亚附近海域捕捞上来的鱼存在严重的性别畸形，许多鱼变成了雌雄同体的“阴阳鱼”。这意味着海水已被相当数量的人类性药品污染。

    据《卫报》网站11月15日报道，加利福尼亚大学海洋毒物研究专家丹·夏伦克日前表示，科学家对加利福尼亚州附近海域捕捞上来的鱼进行研究后发现，在64条生活在深海的鱼中，有11条雄性鱼的睾丸处都出现了卵巢组织。科学家认为，那些避孕药中的雌激素和化学药品是造成鱼类性别畸形的罪魁祸首。

    Scientists have found sexual deformities in male fish caught off the Californian coast, suggesting that gender-bending chemicals have reached alarming levels in the waters.

    Of 64 bottom-dwelling fish caught along the coastline, 11 males were found to have ovarian tissue growing in their testes, Dan Schlenk, a marine toxicologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry meeting in Baltimore yesterday.

    Scientists believe female hormones in sewage, such as oestrogen from the contraceptive pill, and chemicals are to blame.