disturbing bass fact.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by ivanputski

I would love to see what usda beef tests for...

was reading recently how the grass over
on the left coast (Oregon) had been contaminated with pollution
and or radioactive fallout from the Japan disaster and then the cows ate the grass and whamo it shows up in the milk.

Similarly ....the un scrubbed pollution from China's industrial smokestacks gets into the weather system and rains down later......
thousands of miles away.

It doesn't mix right in to ocean water and disseminate into the salt water....instead it sits on top for awhile...
that's where schooling fish like menhaden make contact and it gets into the food chain.

Just recently this past week a YELLOW FOG surrounded one of their cities ...a new type of smog and industrial pollution

Who knows what the ramifications of that will be

[numbskull]

I suspect it is not a good idea to eat multiple meals from the same fish. Most studies of toxin levels in fish shows that levels in individual fish vary widely and some fish are way above the "safe" level.

When you eat multiple meals from a single fish, if that fish happens to be one with a high toxin level, you (and your family) can ingest a much higher cumulative dose (possibly 30-40X higher) than what you would expect if you ate the same number of meals from 4-5 different fish.

While this is more commonly a problem with tuna than bass (I know of two people in my town who poisoned themselves eating fish they caught), if you have small kids you might want to rethink the wisdom of keeping a large bass and freezing much of it for repeated family meals.