Eat more fish!

[PRBuzz]

Toenail trimmings show no heart risk from mercury in fish

(not the toenail clippings)

LOS ANGELES — In an unusual health study, researchers analyzing toxin levels in tens of thousands of toenail clippings determined that mercury from eating fish does not raise the risk of heart disease or stroke.

Toenail study: No heart risk from mercury in fish - Health - Heart health - msnbc.com

[Piscator]

What a terrible job, examining toe nail clippings all day. Makes you appreciate your job. I wonder if Rex Ryan helped out in this study. I was just thinking, do the nail samples get delivered to the lab by a Toe Truck?

[Sea Flat]

I read an article that stated in order for you to get mercury poison from fish you would need to eat it something like 6 days a week for many months. I like fish and like to eat fish, but I would never eat it more than 2 or 3 times a week at the height of fishing season.

[zacs]

Originally Posted by Sea Flat

I read an article that stated in order for you to get mercury poison from fish you would need to eat it something like 6 days a week for many months. I like fish and like to eat fish, but I would never eat it more than 2 or 3 times a week at the height of fishing season.

this is correct. For an adult, the amount of mercury you need to consume for it to have any effect is so much, that it almost impossible to get it from fish...

The main issue is with children and therefore women of childbearing age. Much smaller amounts of mercury can cause problems with the developing brain.

There has been so much confusion around this issue that many people stopped/decrease seafood consumption. such a shame. seafood is one of the most healthy things to eat on the planet, and the benefits are so outweighed by the drawbacks, that there is no reason to cut down consumption at all.....

[Mr. Sandman]

You have to find a healthy fish first before you can eat it. They are almost gone. The Chesapeake has some with red sores on it I hear.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

You have to find a healthy fish first before you can eat it. They are almost gone. The Chesapeake has some with red sores on it I hear.

I wouldn't want to be the first that finds out but does anyone know what happens to people when those "red sore" fish are consumed?

Caught one in Boston Harbor last year and it was pretty sickly looking. Didn't even touch it with my hands.............

[JLH]

Originally Posted by Piscator

I wouldn't want to be the first that finds out but does anyone know what happens to people when those "red sore" fish are consumed?

Caught one in Boston Harbor last year and it was pretty sickly looking. Didn't even touch it with my hands.............

I wouldn’t eat anything with sores but if it’s cooked it’s supposed to be safe… you can get an infection though from handling infected fish.

More info here: In Focus - Striped Bass Health

I have only come across one obviously infected fish in the last couple of years so I’m not sure how common it is up in these areas.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by JLH

I wouldn’t eat anything with sores but if it’s cooked it’s supposed to be safe… you can get an infection though from handling infected fish.

More info here: In Focus - Striped Bass Health

I have only come across one obviously infected fish in the last couple of years so I’m not sure how common it is up in these areas.

I can see it know,

"Honey, I swear I haven't been with another woman, I got this from a Striper fishing last weekend"

[Mr. Sandman]

Yummmm doesn't this look appetizing....it is perfecly fine to eat though and there is no problem with the fishery.."don't look at the man behing the curtain, all is well"

[Fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Piscator

I can see it know,

"Honey, I swear I haven't been with another woman, I got this from a Striper fishing last weekend"

I caught one in the top of the bay last year and it was covered with nasty sores. All the fins were really bloody too. I didn't handle it and I didn't want to throw it back. At the same time I wasn't sure if I wanted some local raccoons eating it and possibly catching and spreading it. I have no idea if thats even possible but it ran through my head for a second.. Then I tossed it back. Just wasn't sure what to do with it.

As far as the mercury... I wonder about the neurological damage from heavy metals more than anything else. I use to eat tog or bass 5 times a week but stopped last year. I'm too worried about gettin dumberrrr

[MAKAI]

From what I have read, most bass with myco don't exhibit the external lesions. It's more internal to the organs.

[Sea Flat]

I know a couple of charter captains that have gotten sores on their hands from the handling of stripers and the sores took a really long time to heal and were really gross. I have caught a few fish with the sores in the past few years, nothing gross like other pictures I have seen, but a few red sores on their side and near their tails.

The story I read of a guy getting mercury poisoning from eating too much striper was crazy. The guy ate it like every day including the meat from the head area which is said to hold much higher concentrations of mercury. His speech became slurred, stuff like that. As another poster said, pretty near impossible for it to negatively effect an adult unless going overboard.

[Crest Daddy]

I caught 1 with this stuff last fall. Looked like it's tail was going to fall off. Nice to learn what it is. Was pretty gnarly.