WARNING

Warning!!!! If you like to eat fish for your health, the only kind of fish that are safe to eat are pond raised fish in unpolluted water.

Many of the fish in the Great Lakes have Mercury and PCB’s in them, making most of them unsafe to eat. The Health Department tells us not to et fish more than once per week for safety from some areas. 

Many of our frozen fish are shipped from Japan, Korea, and Brazil, where they are caught from polluted waters loaded with human waste, garbage, and other poisons. 

A few years ago, fish were poisoned from a Russian plutonium accident. Fish, especially Salmon, were affected in the waters surrounding Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. These fish are caught by commercial fishermen and shipped to this country and sold as fresh frozen or canned. 

Many Florida lake waters have signs posted, that any fish caught south of Highway 41 are not to be eaten, as they are Mercury and PCB poisoned. Some predator fish in the Everglades have as much as 3.0 Mercury RRM. Fish containing 0.5 are safe to eat, once a week, but should not be eaten by pregnant women or children.

This poisoning of the fish and waters is caused by industrial waste, and the heavy spraying of orange groves and vegetable fields. Chlorine is the fish life’s main enemy, yet it is used in city sewage plants. They chlorinate the sewage, and then that water dumps into every stream, river, and eventually ocean. 

Neither trimming nor cooking will remove Mercury, PCB’s, or Copper Sulfate out of a fish once it is contaminated. Keep this in mind when you are about to use chemicals in a pond or lake. 

All the contaminants found in fish can be injurious to human health. The ingesting over a period of time will lead to tumors, reproductive failure, birth defects, liver issues, and mental disorders. This list is long and depressing.

It is a fact that by eating fish that are high in Mercury and PCB’s can cause damage to brain cells, especially in babies and young children. Older people are at risk too. These substances can cause cancer and memory loss. 

We can reduce our exposure to toxic substances by raising our own fish in our own ponds. 

In the last two years, many fish brokers went into business hauling cheap fish out of polluted waters, buying them cheap and selling them to unsuspecting pond owners. This is why we recommend having your own pond and buying only from reputable sources, that way you will know exactly what kinds of fish you eat and what is in them.