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Location: Northwest WI | Found the musky as food thread to be interesting reading. I haven't tried musky but probably would if it was clear the fish wouldn't survive, and was legal to harvest. I started fishing muskies 13 years ago and am pleased to report my boat hasn't lost one yet.
The thread had several comments regarding the toxic effects of mercury in fish. Studies now show that mercury is only toxic in the absence of selenium, and most of the fish we consume is rich in selenium. I keep an article to this point in my fish recipe book, but the information is readily available on the internet. Do a quick search on mercury/selenium in fish and you'll see lots of good information.
I eat as much fish as I can, but not enough as I want. It was good to learn that I don't need to be concerned about mercury. That said, concerns regarding pcb's and other heavy metals still apply for waters contaminated by such toxins.
Keith Whyte
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| I used to worry about mercury contamination, but the docter sayz my dain isn't bramaged at all! Dey tell me it's normul to be 2" taller in the summer! |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | So I can eat Muskie now? Sweet!!!!! Lol |
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Location: The desert | Got a link to those studies? |
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | Pointerpride102 - 1/25/2012 10:20 PM Got a link to those studies? Yeah, and who sponsored those studies? You can make a study or survey turn out any way you want. |
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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | gtp888 - 1/26/2012 4:16 AM
Pointerpride102 - 1/25/2012 10:20 PM Yeah, and who sponsored those studies?
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Location: Northwest WI | No links to any particular study...
Do a quick Google search on "mercury selenium in fish" and reams of info will pop up from a variety of government, educational and private sources.
Personally, I'm now very comfortable eating/serving fish I catch without worry over mercury concerns...
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| I wont risk it. I do what I can to aviod cancer. |
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Location: Smith Creek | Do a search on Mercury poisoning.
Try feeding your pregnant wife fish and see how that goes over. When my wife was pregnant she memorized the list of contaminated species for the entire tri state area and every time I served fish I had to give the species and origin before she'd go near it. |
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Location: The desert | http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/22/mercury_lev...
This talks a little bit about it. I don't know if I'd make the leap that says all fish high in mercury are now safe to eat. I couldn't find a single scientific article on it in google scholar, but the findings may not be published yet. Personally the advisories have never stopped me and I'm not that concerned either way. I don't eat fish all that often. |
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Location: Smith Creek | http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/29/us/researchers-say-they-ve-identi...
I still won't be feeding my kids any belly meat off muskies, and the whale meat is not going to be served either. I don't care what "researchers" at the "university" of North Dakota say. |
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| Being serious for a moment... In my opinion, the fish that are most likely to have the highest concentrations of mercury aren't all that good to eat anyway. It may be relatively safe to eat them, but why would you want to? |
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Location: Northwest WI | Here are a couple of interesting sites...
www,mercuryfacts.org
www,fishscam.com
Both are a bit wordy, but offer thought provoking information.
Please understand fellows, I'm not trying to force feed this info to anyone. The mercury/selenium relationship was unknown to me until a year or so ago when I came across the newspaper article mentioned in my first post. Prior to coming across this article, I too believed fish related mercury was a big problem. Since then, have researched the subject a bit and am now much less concerned about mercury poisoning from eating fish than I had been for most of my 51 years.
As is always the case, each of us is free to develop/hold their own conclusions.
With kind regards,
Keith Whyte
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Location: The desert | esoxaddict - 1/26/2012 9:29 AM
Being serious for a moment... In my opinion, the fish that are most likely to have the highest concentrations of mercury aren't all that good to eat anyway. It may be relatively safe to eat them, but why would you want to?
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| I look at it this way, Muskies live for many years and eat lots of fish who already may have some toxic build up of some sort. and some of the fish they may eat may be bigger, like carp. And carp are usually on the advisory list. so the older the fish, the more possibilities of toxin present. Ya just never can be sure of the water quality or whos dumping what in it . I'll just stick to an occasional walleye and perch. I consider muskie a sportfish. |
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| Pointerpride102 - 1/26/2012 11:39 AM
esoxaddict - 1/26/2012 9:29 AM
Being serious for a moment... In my opinion, the fish that are most likely to have the highest concentrations of mercury aren't all that good to eat anyway. It may be relatively safe to eat them, but why would you want to?
Maybe you just suck at cooking them : )
That's a possibility! |
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| KGW - 1/26/2012 10:45 AM
Here are a couple of interesting sites...
www,mercuryfacts.org
www,fishscam.com
Both are a bit wordy, but offer thought provoking information.
Please understand fellows, I'm not trying to force feed this info to anyone. The mercury/selenium relationship was unknown to me until a year or so ago when I came across the newspaper article mentioned in my first post. Prior to coming across this article, I too believed fish related mercury was a big problem. Since then, have researched the subject a bit and am now much less concerned about mercury poisoning from eating fish than I had been for most of my 51 years.
As is always the case, each of us is free to develop/hold their own conclusions.
With kind regards,
Keith Whyte
You have to be careful where information is gathered. The study is interesting, but just going to .com or .org sites which are run by those with interest in certain things is no way to go about gathering factual information. As for the study, it will be interesting when it is replicated and peer reviewed....this is the gold standard in telling where the science lives versus where the money lives. |
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| try searching under google scholar and see if the same studies come up... |
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