Guidelines for Safe Fish Consumption

[Mr Ontario]

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)

[gsxr750]

So what's generally the cheapest out of the first group? pound for pound

[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.

So what's generally the cheapest out of the first group? pound for pound

[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.

[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.

[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.

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.

[Freebsd1977]

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?

[Mr Ontario]

Yuk~

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?

[UkrainianGuy]

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[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.