Guidelines for Safe Fish Consumption

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03-08-2008, 02:30 PM
Mr Ontario

Guidelines for Safe Fish Consumption

Least Mercury: Enjoy these fish often:
anchovies
butterfish
catfish
clam
crab
crawfish/crafish
croaker (atlantic)
flounder
haddock
hake
herring
mackerel
mullet
oyster
perch (ocean)
plaice
pollock
salmon (Canned)
salmon (fresh)
sardine
scallop
shad (american)
shrimp
sole (pacific)
squid
tilapia
trout (freshwater)
whitefish
whiting

Moderate Mercury: Eat six servings or fewer per month:
bass (striped,black)
carp
cod (alaskan)
croaker
halibut (white pacific)
jacksmelt
lobster
mahi mahi
monkfish
perch (freshwater)
sablefish
skate
snapper
tuna (canned chunker light)
tuna (skipjack)
weakfish (sea trout)

High Mercury: Eat three servings or fewer per month:
bluefish
grouper
mackerel (spanish, gulf)
sea bass
tuna (canned albacore)
tuna (yellowfin)

Highest Mercury: Avoid eating:
mackerel (King)
marlin
orange roughy
shark
swordfish
tilefish
tuna (bibeye, ahi)
03-08-2008, 02:48 PM
gsxr750

So what's generally the cheapest out of the first group? pound for pound
03-08-2008, 02:59 PM
Mr Ontario

Good question lol I usually just stick to my Fish oil supplement 3 x a day and light flaked tuna. I throw some Salmon in there once in a while as well.

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Originally Posted by gsxr750

So what's generally the cheapest out of the first group? pound for pound
03-08-2008, 03:19 PM
Freebsd1977

Thanks for the list Mr.O. I used to enjoy anchovies until I got smart about my sodium intake and saw that one can has over 1200-1600 mg of Na!!! Damn.
03-08-2008, 03:19 PM
BAM

Basicly.. if it lives on the bottom or is really big.. dont eat it.

The ocean is a toxic waste dump.. same with the great lakes.

I can only imagine what china has dumped in the ocean.
03-08-2008, 03:31 PM
Mr Ontario

Ya...I used to eat allot of lobster....until I was told...just think about it.....what do they eat....there scavengers of food off the bottom floor of the ocean...they eat literately crap.

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Originally Posted by BAM

Basicly.. if it lives on the bottom or is really big.. dont eat it.

The ocean is a toxic waste dump.. same with the great lakes.

I can only imagine what china has dumped in the ocean.
03-08-2008, 06:24 PM
Freebsd1977

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Ontario

Ya...I used to eat allot of lobster....until I was told...just think about it.....what do they eat....there scavengers of food off the bottom floor of the ocean...they eat literately crap.

Tom Clancy wrote a chapter where these Italianos dump the body of an FBI witness into the Chesapeake Bay and in 3 days, the lobsters ate the whole carcass. Anyone for some Red Lobster tonight? :p
03-08-2008, 06:48 PM
Mr Ontario

Yuk~

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freebsd1977

Tom Clancy wrote a chapter where these Italianos dump the body of an FBI witness into the Chesapeake Bay and in 3 days, the lobsters ate the whole carcass. Anyone for some Red Lobster tonight? :p
20-03-2009, 09:50 PM
UkrainianGuy

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21-03-2009, 10:38 PM
tripleA

Is tuna that bad? I eat canned tuna (yellow fin chunk light) from costco 5X/week and have been doing it 7+++ years. I knew a person that was severely ill from mercury poisoning, but I think it was fresh tuna.
22-03-2009, 04:14 AM
dku

I'm good - thanks for posting!
25-03-2009, 09:44 PM
waderow

i eat a fair bit of tuna :(

hmmmm

might have to switch to salmon
25-03-2009, 09:56 PM
tiramisu

The cheap tuna (little fish) is pretty safe. The nice big fillets from older fish have more mercury than you like :(

I generally eat salmon twice a week and 1 or 2 cans of tuna.

I'm not sure about the omegas but pickerel/walleye can be had forr 5-7$ a pound here so it's right up there with chicken breasts for me.
25-03-2009, 11:28 PM
O-Train

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Originally Posted by RobertF

The cheap tuna (little fish) is pretty safe. The nice big fillets from older fish have more mercury than you like :(

I generally eat salmon twice a week and 1 or 2 cans of tuna.

I'm not sure about the omegas but pickerel/walleye can be had forr 5-7$ a pound here so it's right up there with chicken breasts for me.

Yeah, thats true. I think I remember reading that the cheap tuna is actually lower in mercury than the Albacore. Canned Salmon is all farmed fish so mercury probably isn't an issue with that (although they are pumped full of a lot of chemicals, but so is chicken).