Is it ok if we eat the fish in lakes that have high mercury content? when dnr website says not to??? is this true??

thanks

luke

If the DNR says to not eat fish from a particular lake, I suggest you not. Heavy metal poisoning is a nasty thing and it'll never leave your system without a very uncomfortable purge.

It's not that one fish today will kill you. It's one fish today, and one fish tomorrow, and so on.

In most of the warnings they give concerning eating fish they also give you an amount or number of meals it should be limited to. If it says specifically not to eat fish from a lake then don't. Otherwise just follow the warning directions...

Bruce

I don't know how stringent Minnesota's guidelines are. I have talked extensively with a friend in Iowa who's done some of the testing there, and he won't eat any fish from any lake in Iowa, even if it's supposedly "safe". My personal middle course is to not touch fish from lakes with an advisory, even if I can supposedly get a meal a day out of it. (I don't eat farm-raised fish, either).

You can get information from the lakefinder at http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/index.html and decide for yourself whether it's better to catch dinner a portage or two away.

Has anyone come across a like in the B-Dub that the consumption advisory says "Don't eat"?

(I'm not talking about the larger fish. They typically always, as a rule of thumb, have some sort of limit on them)

Hex

I've not seen one yet and the Good Lord knows I have looked at enough lakes in all the research I have done...

Bruce