We have a great freshwater sport fishery for introduced salmonids up here in Lake Ontario...
Unfortunately the health advisories recommend eating little or no large fish due primarily
to the effects bioaccumulation & the aftermath of the industrial revolution on our waterways...
Remember it is never the fishes fault.............. All they want to do is survive/grow/reproduce
Humans have caused these problems... and it is up to us to solve them!
>> thanks to all for the tips and updates on this snakehead issue
I will pass on the text & links to my colleagues.
I guess containment / education is the key now...??
Scott M. Wells
Graduate Research Assistant
Longear Sunfish Project
Dept. of Env. Sci. & Biology
S.U.N.Y. College at Brockport .... "southern Lake Ontario watershed"
swel0828 at brockport.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: EELReprah at aol.com
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2005 1:47 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Snakehead edibility
> Like all other fish at the top of the food chain, the accumulation
> of
> mercury, PCBs and dioxins there will be a cautionary warning about
> eating these or
> any other fish. See some Virginia guidelines at
> http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20041214-104818-9559r.htm
> or Maryland at
> http://www.mde.state.md.us/assets/document/Fish%20Consumption%20Advisory%207-0
> 6-05(1).pdf#Recommended_Meals_Per_Year
>
> Unfortunately, it suggests that you eat fewer fish and that
> will have
> less affect on the snakeheads.
>
> Lee Harper
> Media, PA
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