Thread: Mercury levels

Personally, I don't pay much attention to them. As a youth I played with mercury, and up until my mid-life years I closed pinch-on sinkers with my teeth. I'm a 76yo man & still eating Catfish on occasion, from lakes with those consumption advisories. But, the main reason I don't worry so much about the advisories is that I don't consume enough of the fish on the advisory list to be concerned.

If I had the choice I’d just fish another lake with no warning

I do watch it but it hasn’t really been a issue because it doesn’t apply to panfish or I don’t eat enough bass or catfish to make a difference


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Originally Posted by Lund

I do watch it but it hasn’t really been a issue because it doesn’t apply to panfish or I don’t eat enough bass or catfish to make a difference


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I advisory that I refer to is specifically for crappie and bass

Originally Posted by silverside

I advisory that I refer to is specifically for crappie and bass

Ahh gotcha. The areas I fish don’t have any for crappie. There was I think one for bass but never caught enough to make a difference lol


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I posted this before, my brother & I participated in the Harvard Study done in the New Orleans area concerning the accumulation of mercury in the body from eating fish from the local waters there. We had to cut a lock of hair and send it in to the program. At the time my brother's diet was fish out of local waters 2-3 days a week for a very long time where my diet was sushi once to twice a week. My brother barely had any mercury where I was loaded with it. I think it had to be the sushi fish. I skin everything except the Goggle-eye for the Mock Eel Tempura sushi rolls I make.

Never even pay attention to what the government says to eat, have you seen the stuff they allow in our food?

Now I have cut way back on my thermometer consumption!

Originally Posted by keeferfish

Never even pay attention to what the government says to eat, have you seen the stuff they allow in our food?

Now I have cut way back on my thermometer consumption!

Come on guys? No one???? Fish are Nasty, stop eating them immediately!

They allow rat crap, aphids, mold, rot, rodent hairs, insect heads and we haven't even scratched the surface on chemicals allowed, Yellow number four was my favorite until yellow until number five came out, much more tasty!

I mean arsenic is pretty good if grilled correctly!

10 Gross Things the FDA Allows in Your Food - Reviewed

List of Select Chemicals in the Food Supply Under FDA Review | FDA


Guidelines for Eating Fish that Contain Mercury | US EPA