to much fish?

I’m wondering how much fish a person can eat before they have to start worrying about mercury. I been fishing bout every other night and having a lot of fresh fish, like 3-4 nights a week. Wifes never had anything that didn’t come from the store and loves it. Just don’t wanna be poinoning the family. Mostly been perch, cat and bullhead so far if that makes a diffrence. Also from the river.

http://www.iowadnr.gov/portals/idnr/uploads/fish/fish_consumption_advisories.pdf

Looks like you should cut back on your consumption according to the Iowa DNR.

I cant remember what they say for safe amount from the river. Dont quote me but I think once a month? or was it week

Lakes like ML, Leech, Winnie, LOW, Vermillion…etc they say you can eat as much as you want.

I’ll take my chances with fresh fish instead of processed/preserved food from the supermarket.

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you need to check the specific consumption guidelines for the body of water you’re eating the fish out of. Typically the MN DNR lake finder system will tell you somewhere on there.

just look at the old people that live on the lake or river.. If they still have the standard 2 eyes and 2 nipples you should be fine!

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just look at the old people that live on the lake or river.. If they still have the standard 2 eyes and 2 nipples you should be fine!

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A lot of people are born with more than two nips……

Once a week if you are full grown is too much over time. Once a month if you are a kid is what Wisconsin DNR suggests. I wouldn’t suggest eating a lot of fish that eat other fish as mercury accumulates. A big cat can have a much higher level of mercury than say a sunfish that eats bugs.

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just look at the old people that live on the lake or river.. If they still have the standard 2 eyes and 2 nipples you should be fine!

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The concern only becomes serious when they glow in the dark.

I would expect the cats are the worst culprits for the poising.
But far be it for me, Brink will know better!

so 3+ a week is pushing it thenthinks for the web page. i will check it out

Exactly… just look at Glenn & Mitchell

I fix fish friday night and eat left overs for 3 or 4 days. Catfish walleyes sheephead crappie gills northern white bass bass. Smoked, fried, baked, and pickled.
I’m betting that I die someday.
I’m betting all of you will too.

Safety is, and always will be a statistical concept, not an absolute. Hence the smoker who lives until 90 and the 30 year old who never smoked who dies of lung cancer. What is missing from the advisory is what the actual risks are, what criteria is used to determine “safe” consumption. And then a comparison to a risk we are more familiar with, like driving an auto 20,000 miles/year.Remember, these are the same people who make the food shelf throw away venison because they find a lead fragment.

Well ya… you gotta mix in a squirrel or possum in once in awhile

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just look at the old people that live on the lake or river.. If they still have the standard 2 eyes and 2 nipples you should be fine!

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A lot of people are born with more than two nips……

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I knew someone in college who had a “utility nipple”. Weird but fun.

Then I won’t ask how that user name came about.

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I’ll tell you…no…maybe I won’t

lol, you can joke, but after the first hard frost squirrle does make it onto the menu along with coon, rabbit and what ever else may be in season. if i had time for a garden i would rarely need to go to a grocery store. my wife god love her can kill a cactus in 3 weeks!

o, and i checked the website and it said nothing about the des moines river so im good to go! i dont know if yall have tried it, but i cook all my fish on the grill wrapped in individual tin foil packets. i throw veggies in with it, little butter andsometimes a little wedge of lemon. good eating.

after looking on the dnr website, apparently what i thought was perch is actualy a white bass. having never seen either or even heard of a white bass i looked on a website and they looked very similar. on the dnr website there is a clear distinction. always loved fishing and eating them but never really looked into what some of the other fish are. lol, im not a specist(racist). i love all fish on my plate

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I fix fish friday night and eat left overs for 3 or 4 days. Catfish walleyes sheephead crappie gills northern white bass bass. Smoked, fried, baked, and pickled.
I’m betting that I die someday.
I’m betting all of you will too.

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Amen.

Each state has its own standard for doing the testing and what’s poison in one state maybe ok to eat in another.

I agree I ate alot of squirrel as a kid… if we shot it, we had to eat it Lots of rabbit and squirrel…. never shot a coon…? What’s that taste like ? (don’t say coon )

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I agree I ate alot of squirrel as a kid… if we shot it, we had to eat it Lots of rabbit and squirrel…. never shot a coon…? What’s that taste like ? (don’t say coon )

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I would imagine that a coon would taste a lot like Dennis Green,, little greasy n oily

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I agree I ate alot of squirrel as a kid… if we shot it, we had to eat it Lots of rabbit and squirrel…. never shot a coon…? What’s that taste like ? (don’t say coon )

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Id take a meal of tree rats over almost anything else any day! I had a instructor from tech that was from Iowa and he said they ate coon all the time. He said it was kind of salty tasting??

I cooked young raccoon a couple times. It’s kind of like greasy roast beef.

I normaly cut mine up like you would a chicken and grill it. Yes I’m one of those people that grills in the winter time. It is a lot like roast, maybe a little stronger flavour. Lol, never had possum yet. Spose it would be about like coon.

Careful on Vermilion, because of the high mercury content in the water, it is actually the same recommended amounts as Red Wing or the Croix.