While catching and eating fish is enjoyable and practical, it also can be dangerous if you’re not familiar with the water quality in your local fisheries. Many heavily fished bodies of water have state-mandated fish consumption advisories that either warn anglers not to eat any fish from that body of water, or limit the number of fish consumed within a certain time period. Before you keep, clean and eat fish, make sure you check into the water quality. This information can be found at your state’s Department of Natural Resources and is sometimes posted at public access points on certain bodies of water.
Of course, if you’re like me, you’ll find some of these advisories a bit befuddling. For instance, one advisory in my area warns anglers not to eat fish caught from a specific creek west of a specific road. So, um, what prevents those dirty westsider fish from swimming over to the east side of that road? For me, that means I don’t eat fish from any location in that creek, regardless of whether it’s purportedly safe to dine on those eastside fish since you never know if one of those rabblerousing westsiders might have slipped in undetected.
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