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.
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by mermentau
I have a feeling that's going to change soon. The catch part I mean. With your desire you can't fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishervet
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"
This warning hasn't been updated since 2004; some locations longer than that. Hopefully it's better now; not worse. Didn't see my home lake of D'arbonne on it.
Well....I "Heard" LDWF was talkin' about closing the "Bone" for Crappie Fishing for a couple of years.....seems there are a few "Ole Men" living around Forks-Ferry Bend who have fished it dry of perch....gotta give the fish a chance to recover......;-)
I've never been to Mercury to fish. Caught a few on Mars and a nice mess on Saturn. But since there is a warning, I'm not gonna fish Mars. Ever!!
when I was a kid my dad brought home liquid mercury from work (telephone company).....it had been used in a switch on a bifold door to turn on the light in an old telephone booth....when you got in and closed the door the light would come on......the point is....we played with that stuff all the time, rolling it back & forth in our hands, etc.......it was pretty cool stuff.......learned later in life that it can create extreme desires to want to go fishing.......
So that is what my problem is! I have been wondering what brouht this incurable ailment on for years! My wife is still wondering!Quote:
Originally Posted by prefers shiners
Maybe that's my problem. We would break thermometers on purpose just to play with the mercury.Quote:
Originally Posted by prefers shiners
the blood river, tickfaw, and others in that area have had those signs up since I got my first set of wheels under my butt and I could pull a boat. (27 years ago)...I been eatin em as fast as I can catch em for about that long. Had a good hole underneath one of those signs they had nailed to a cypress tree. And look at me.......hey....what was that?
STOP TALKING TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get out of my HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mercury was used in oil based paints to make it Mildew Resistant, and other chemical plants in their Processes. It is in the settenents of most Rivers. Flooding exposes some long Buried in strong currents. Coastal States moniters shellfishlike and closes the beds to fishing when too high. Bottom feeding Fish have higher levels than Game fish. Storms too sturr up those sediments.