And the same water that runs through Wateree runs right into Santee-Cooper.
Same as I heard about Hartwell, the amount fish you would have to eat and length of time was unreal. Probably being a glutton and eating that many fish would kill you anyway. Get this though. Russell supposed to one of the cleanest lakes, but the same water that in Hartwell is in Russell.
And the same water that runs through Wateree runs right into Santee-Cooper.
What I want to know is has the fished been checked after they come out of 400 degree cooking oil ?
Living in a Poorman's Paradise
What part of the fish are they testing? I bet if they took an actual fillet and tested it the levels wouldn't be as high. It also said if you removed the fatty tissue that helped a lot. How much fatty tissue is in a fillet? Not much I bet, but anyway if the water gets as muddy as it did last year there won't be many of us eating much striper that's for sure! Those big blues will still bite though!
I beleive unless it has changed the Federal Goverment recommends eat 1 or 2 servings of fish a week, either baked or broiled.
Okay so lets go buy 1 serving a week from the grocery store, 99% of all fish comes from China, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Indonesia countrys.
So what are health standards Like. Since most fish is farm raised what are they feeding them. What care to they take of the fish there importing to this country.
Watch Tv look at some of the rivers, them ole villages along the banks, what kind of a sewage system do they have, where does the human waste go??
To each there own, but I for one would rather eat the fish I caught in one of our lakes. Then eating fish that was imported, and came from the grocery store.
Last edited by beagler; 08-26-2010 at 12:19 PM.
Stump Hunter,
if you can't eat fried fish try taking a caserole dish cut up some onion put your crappie filets on top of the onion cover them with your favorite salsa sauce mild,medium or hot. bake them covered with foil at 350 degrees for 15 mins or until done flaking with a fork.
"What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday"
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point. "AMEN"
Long time since I posted here but had to throw in my two cents....Being a commercial fisherman I can tell you that there is a concentrated campaign going on with noaa and the other powers that be to diminish the viability of our fisheries. Here at the coast it's even worse as they seem to have pooled most of their budgets into our areas rather than you guys inland. Recreational fishermen are being recruited as mouth pieces for their movement and it has gotten in some places where there is actual tension on the waters we share. I'm not saying that theres not some things in the fish we eat that aren't so good for us but the same could be said for just about any of our other food sources.I dont know if it was started to help boost the import markets (like nafta) or for what reason but there is a very real effort being made to spread this propaganda. I believe it is being done for profit. There is big business in scaring folks. They have shut down the snapper/grouper fisheries here for 6 months at a time citing "best available data". I think it's BS. Keep eating your fish.
Commercial fishermen help feed the world.
I'm with you BIG E. somebody somewhere is lookin to make a buck by scarin people to not eat the fish they catch so that they go BUY the fish they eat. Eat Up Folk's. Ya gotta go sometime.
I was on Lake Wateree this winter and saw gillnetts marked by the DNR. I saw them at the ramp one morning and they said they were studying Striped bass, blue catfish, largemouth bass, black crappie, and white bass. later that day they went driving by on the lake with tubs of fish so i followed them to there work up site (across from clearwater cove) and talked them again. this time DHEC was there taking samples for mercury and PCB's levels.. the DNR was doing an age and growth study and then DHEC would take fillets and grind them up and also would grind up whole fish too to be tested. they were all very polite and i learned a lot that day. i would love to get a copy of there reports.