what fish are good for the dish ?

[Hungry Fisherman]

cool this thread is getting interesting i got a few spiders when i met speciman but i buggered up the cooking as i was very very tired from the journey added to mutch salt and boiled for way to long

[kennosen]

Thanks for that Hake, cheers. just what the doctor ordered.

I have a question that some of you guys can probably answer, is there anything thats possible to catch that would make me ill if I ate it? I'll eventually be going out on the yak about a mile or so.

[Hungry Fisherman]

good question was kinda hoping to learn that as well only thing i can think of atm is the flu or cold very popular during winter

 

uh oh did i just steal a starvin or yakity joke there hope it aint copyrighted

[kennosen]

I asked for that didnt I.

[Hungry Fisherman]

so no fish to avoid bad for tummy wise then?

[Newt]

Hungry Fisherman:

so no fish to avoid bad for tummy wise then?

Quite a few and they range from 'gonna make me a little sick' to 'oh dang, I think I'm dead' but none that I know of live near the UK.

 

http://www.aqualink.com/marine/z-poison.html

 

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/conten...?recordid=51352

 

http://library.thinkquest.org/C007974/4ing.htm

 

http://www.floridamarine.org/features/view...cle.asp?id=2530

[spanner]

As far as I am aware there are no UK fish that are inherently toxic.......but be aware that they can contain significant man-made toxins and nasty-stuff, not to mention parasites

 

Personally, I'd not eat stuff that was caught around any industrial or sewage outfalls and particularly esturies. Also red cod that permanently live inshore among the kelp tend to be full of worms.

[Hungry Fisherman]

what about fish cought in the thames estuary they a no no as well?

[Mad Yakker In Oz]

Originally posted by SpeciMan:

Hi GB

 

Is there a technique for bleeding a fish?

 

You can also insert a knife about an inch behind the eye, this will go straight into the brain, which will also draw the blood naturally into its organs, and so keeping the fish ideal for your dinner plate.

[kennosen]

surely thats cruel

 

About the possibility of nasty additives, be they man made or not, in fish caught on an estuary... is it 'a given' that 'all' fish are unsafe and it's not recommended to eat them on a regular basis?