LSC fishing eating guidelines

Looks like we are in the clear eating black crappie this year from Lake st. Clair.

Check out this article from the times herald.
I'll post the details for those of you the link doesn't work for.

https://bwne.ws/2GudVfX

Guidelines for Lake St. Clair previously had included mercury, PCBs and dioxins.

The Eat Safe Fish guidelines for the lake, including the chemical causing the serving guideline and the size of the fish, suggest eating no more than:

Bluegills, PFOS, any size, 4 servings per month.

Carp, PCBs, any size, limited —*only once or twice a year.

Catfish, dioxins, any size, limited —*once or twice a year.

Black crappie, mercury, under 9 inches, 8 servings per month; over 8 inches, 4 servings per month.

Freshwater drum (sheepshead), PCBs and mercury, any size, 2 servings per month

Largemouth and smallmouth bass, PCBs and mercury, under 20 inches, 2 servings per months; over 20 inches, 1 serving per month.

Muskellunge, mercury, any size, do not eat.

Northern pike, mercury, any size, 2*servings per month.

Rock bass, PCBs, any size, 1 serving per month; 2 servings if fat is cut away and fish is cooked so more fat drips away.

Sturgeon, PCBs, any size, limited —*once or twice a year.

Sunfish, PFOS, any size, 4 servings per month.

Walleye, PCBs and dioxins, any, 6 per year; 12 servings per year if fat is cut away and fish is cooked so more fat drips away.

White (silver) bass,*PCBs, any, limited —*once or twice a year.

White crappie, mercury, under 9 inches, 8 servings per month; over 9 inches, 4 servings per month.

Yellow perch, mercury, any, 4 servings per month.

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Intersting information. Especially the yellow perch.

It is, just one question they missed.
How much of eat fish is considered a serving?

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Originally Posted by Michigan Man86

It is, just one question they missed.
How much of eat fish is considered a serving?

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Very true. I wonder why some fish seem to hold more PCB and mercury than others?
I can understand the bottom feeder fish but the others? The only thing I can think of is that, other than the bottom feeders, the next higher seems to be preditory fish. So, if they are eating higher concentrates of "non preditor" fish, then they stand to gain and hold more of the PCB and mercury.

But, then you look at white bass. I wonder if it has more to do with the fat holding content. If you ever clean a white bass, you will notice that there is a very dark line of meat directly under the skin. Same for some of the walleyes in that area. Really makes you wonder. I'm not a fan of eating walleye in that chain from Port Huron all the way to the Erie Mouth. For whatever reason, they just don't taste the same (to me) as the fish out in Erie or Huron for that matter. I've stopped eating them from the Detroit river and the Saginaw river simply because the taste is less appealing to me than the lake caught fish.

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Originally Posted by wicklundrh

For whatever reason, they just don't taste the same (to me) as the fish out in Erie or Huron for that matter. I've stopped eating them from the Detroit river and the Saginaw river simply because the taste is less appealing to me than the lake caught fish.

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Rich, I know you do not like Salmon, but the same is said for Salmon. Fish I have caught out in Lake Michigan taste WAY BETTER, then say something out of a river system, whether its the 6th Street, in GR, or anyplace along the Grand River.
When you get up stream of those rivers, fish within those systems, local to those systems that feed into the larger rivers, like Prairie Creek, or Tibbets Creek, & Libarb Creek's, in Ionia, the trout there are superb, but catch one that has been hanging around the mouth or the river and they taste different.

Our river systems, are rampant with human additives from upstream. Fish native to that river system )Any actually) are going to get "Extra stuff", storm run off with Lawn fertilizer, etc. The joke in GR, is that "When it rains in GR, POOP Floats" meaning that the waste system overflows, and goes into the river system.

I would think that Lake and large body waters, like Saginaw Bay, and Lake Mi, are more like "Free Range Beef/Chickens" better taste, depending on on each persons particular set of taste buds.

I see your point and it is a good one. When I did eat Salmon, I wouldn't consider eating one out of the river unless it was made in to a pattie.

I still eat an occasional salmon but over the years I just somehow grew a dislike for the texture of it. That being said, Pacific Salmon is a whole different ballgame. Brian used to send back fish from Alaska and those are some of the finest eating fish I have ever had. Wierd I know!

You would figure that a river system, with moving water, would somehow be better but I can also see where that moving water is constantly stiring up anything on the bottom that isn't attached whereas the lakes only really get churned up close to shore and then during a big blow for a few days. Of course, fish even taste different from one body of water to another. I guess if you get used to something, you don't know the difference until you try it from some other location.

I've tried white bass 4 different times. Every time I had figured I did it wrong the last time or I had a "new" way to do it. Dredge in mustard, dredge in flour, salt, pepper, soak in milk... then I realized. You can spray purfume on a turd, dress it up in a top hat and sports coat, and at the end of the day it is still a turd!

Steve & I were discussing this a few days/weeks ago maybe. I am by no means a harbinger of doom, but told him no way in HE Double Hockey Sticks would I eat a fish out of the Grand River.

When I was a kid Lacks Enterprise in Saranac, was caught dumping chemicals into the Grand River. There was a huge law suit. I was a kid so I don't know all the details. Heck I was a kid, riding my bike to Sessions Lake catching Trough before it opened to the public....

Anyway, so I went searching, for that information, and found this instead. Most of these are Waste Water Treatment Plants. (Your average local city municipality), toilet water, and what ever is included, along with that or any drug addict, Crack snorting, Freebasing, flusher of anything not "Human Waste"

So anything from the Grand River has "stuff" added from Lansing, Portland, Ionia, Becky's place, Saranac, Lowell, Ada, Forest Hills, Plainfield, Comstock Park, Then anyplace in the GR area, Down Town GR, then Wyoming, Grandville, Jenison, Grand Valley State University, then to the BUTT, of the river, Grand Haven. What is getting mixed up, or should we say diluted, into the fish to effect said taste?

Small local lakes seem to have better tasting fish, and quality of flavor, could the additives by why?????????


YUCK, No Grand River Fish, knowingly, for me.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...gan/index.html

Not to mention, many of the water treatment plants sterilize the waste water until it is clean and remove any nasty objects through filtration systems. But the filters do not catch certain chemicals such as metals, fertilizers, ammonia, nitrates, nitrites, and even certain hormones. Which have an effect on the fish.
I trust eating some fish. Others I won't eat unless truly in need of food.
Perch, gils, and crappie. Yummy yum


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