I believe there was also a connection with insulation in electric transformers......the type you see every mile or so on all the electric poles around the country......
A lot depends on the body of water, and the time of year. When the water is cold I've eaten catfish that I caught, as long as it's in a clean lake. I don't catch that many because I'm usually fishing the top 20 feet of cold lakes for trout. Early in the year I accidentally get catfish on the prowl when they're off the bottom.
Years ago I kept a 50 gallon fish tank with native fish. I had a 3 inch catfish in there who eventually grew to about 7 inches when I let him go. I built a cave out of stones, with sand on the bottom. He was in there all the time, until feeding. That sucker would smell food the second it hit the water. Out he came, and would grab mouthfulls of small gravel and spit it out to get the small flakes of food that were trapped.
I don't eat fish that I don't catch, save for some salmon once in a while. I have eaten flounder/hallibut/fluke, but I tend to stay away from ocean fish.
True, but she's a real nut case. She argues with people who agree with her.
CNN —
Fish caught in the fresh waters of the nation’s streams and rivers and the Great Lakes contain dangerously high levels of PFOS, short for perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, a known synthetic toxin phased out by the federal government, according to a study of data from the US Environmental Protection Agency.
The chemical PFOS is part of a family of manufactured additives known as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, widely used since the 1950s to make consumer products nonstick and resistant to stains, water and grease damage.
Called “forever chemicals” because they fail to break down easily in the environment, PFAS has leached into the nation’s drinking water via public water systems and private wells. The chemicals then accumulate in the bodies of fish, shellfish, livestock, dairy and game animals that people eat, experts say.
“The levels of PFOS found in freshwater fish often exceeded an astounding 8,000 parts per trillion,” said study coauthor David Andrews, a senior scientist at Environmental Working Group, the nonprofit environmental health organization that analyzed the data. The report was published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Research.
In comparison, the EPA has allowed only 70 parts per trillion of PFOS in the nation’s drinking water. Due to growing health concerns, in 2022 the EPA recommended the allowable level of PFOS in drinking water be lowered from 70 to 0.02 parts per trillion.
“You’d have to drink an incredible amount of water — we estimate a month of contaminated water — to get the same exposure as you would from a single serving of freshwater fish,” Andrews said.
“Consuming even a single (locally caught freshwater) fish per year can measurably and significantly change the levels of PFOS in your blood,” Andrews said.
Chemicals in the PFAS family are linked to high cholesterol, cancer and various chronic diseases, as well as a limited antibody response to vaccines in both adults and children, according to a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
“This is an important paper,” said toxicologist Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program.
“To find this level of contamination in fish across the country, even in areas not close to industry where you might expect heavy contamination, is very concerning. These chemicals are everywhere,” she said.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/health/freshwater-fish-pfas-contamination-wellness/index.html
You cannot eat tilapia as most of it is raised in sewers in China/India. They don't give a shit about Yankee dogs.
When I was a kid there was an old Italian women who used to take that broad part of the skeleton just behind the head and make crucifixes out of them. If you turn that bone upside down and look at the part that faces the belly, there is a little crucifix in there. She used to clean them and coat them in clear nail polish.
Tilapia is a freshwater fish that is a lot like eating smallmouth bass. Unfortunately, all you can get is Chinese farmed tilapia in the stores.
In the entire Northeast, the issue is mercury from coal fired power plants in the midwest and Pa.. There is no body of water in the region that isn't tainted with mercury.
