Thread: Mercury Fish Advisories

Originally Posted by mermentau

Does anyone worry about these: http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/index.cfm/page/902 My wife will only cook crappie once a week because of them. This has probably been discussed here before my time.

Don't catch enough to worry about it.

Originally Posted by fishervet

Don't catch enough to worry about it.

I have a feeling that's going to change soon. The catch part I mean. With your desire you can't fail.

I'm in the same shape.....don't have enough to cook weekly! Plenty of desire to go, but not enough time! It's killing me these days...you know, I say that, but I seem to find it a repeating pattern instead of just "these days. Gotta make some time soon.

couldn't open the link......or too impatient to wait so long for it......I have seen the warning sign at Henderson.....I don't pay any attention to it.....I figure at my age I've been cheating death for a while anyway....Thanks to the big Man up there I have been Blessed....especially to be able to still get out and go.....my wife said go all you can while you can (and I am).....Blessed again....

I've read somewhere it's not a good idea to eat the fish caught after hurricanes because of the sediment stirred up. How long after a storm, don't know. The map in the link pretty much covered all the Louisiana waters including the gulf. So I would assume it would include shrimp, crabs, etc. Not sure how they came up with this, interesting though.

I love fish but can't see me eating them more than once a week.

On a good note if you look at the individual reports listed at the bottom some areas have no advisory. I looked at several and only noted the age on one and it was 10 years old.

@Prefers Shiners, The link seems to be working fine now. I'm not worried about it, but my wife is and she is the cook around here.

I'm sure glad to see that there are no alert in all the waters that I fish. No wonder the fish taste better here, no mercury.
"gene"