Comments on: How many meals of fish are safe to eat?

By: Charlotte Vick

Charlotte Vick — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:17:47 +0000

Stephan,
Would love to talk to you about putting some posts into OCEAN in Google Earth (Google Ocean) if you are interested. Your knowledge would be of particular use and it would lead more people back to your site and blog which are most informative.

Charlotte Vick
Communications - Deep Search Foundation (www.deepdeep.org)
Content Editor Ocean in Google Earth

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:28:40 +0000

Hi Thierry - I would not know whether or not the list provided by the Environmental Defense Fund is complete. I hav enot seen Ciguatera on the list - sorry… Stephan

By: Stephan

Stephan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:08 +0000

Hi Rik, the figures have been compilated by the Environmental Defense Fund based on more than 200 government databases and scientific studies on seafood contaminants, and determine how many meals per week it is safe to eat a particular type of fish. Please visit this website for more information:

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=16263

Cheers, Stephan

By: Thierry Personne

Thierry Personne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:26:04 +0000

If you add an other colomn for Ciguatera fish are really not safe to eat…

By: Rik Smoody

Rik Smoody — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:05:44 +0000

Nice summary, but
it would make me feel way more comfortable propagating it if I saw back-pointers to the raw data…
who does the measurement, procedures & methods and such.

By: Stephan Becker

Stephan Becker — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:03:32 +0000

Hmmm, Susan that IS very intriguing! I have a possible answer that may surprise you: In one of your former lives you have been a mermaid! Throughout your tender mermaid childhood two gals at mermaid school have been incredibly nasty boys: the grouper boy and the swordfish boy… two rascals actually, making really bad jokes about your cute mermaid tail all the time.. no wonder that your mermaid soul has kept this pretty traumatizing memory alive throughout your various reincarnations… and here you are, finally reached wo-manhood. And o surprise! You have kept a decent allergy against those two rascals!…:-) You now also better understand why you love scuba diving so much - you have a true mermaid soul! Greetings to beautiful Sarasota, Cheers, Stephan…:-)

By: Susan Russ, Sarasota FL

Susan Russ, Sarasota FL — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:17:42 +0000

Stephan - thank you so much for this article. Very interesting! I have a perplexing question that no-one I have ever asked has been able to answer - ha! After reading this article, I thought perhaps you might have some insight into it. I eat all kinds of seafood, all over the world - but I am extremely allergic to grouper and swordfish. Just those two, and I can eat anything else with no problems. As they are very different in feeding patterns, etc, I have not been able to determine a connection between the two. I see on this chart that both have Mercury implications, but so do many other fish. I have asked commercial fishermen, spearfishermen, dive professionals and anyone else who would listen and no answers. Any ideas at all? Thanks! Susan