5 Fish You Should Never Eat

this is not a well written article. It doesnt support itself with much for facts. I agree that it is confusing that the list reflects endangered species, but seems to incorporate toxic levels of chemicals as a reason for some of the fish.

There is not a shred of scince to support eating or not eating any of the fish or shellfish named in this article. Who is Max, and what are his credentials, and why should anyone believe what he writes? Give someone a computer and all of a sudden he is an expert on nutrition? Please!

I'm confused! Are we talking about fish we should not eat due to health considerations or species that may be endangered? My favorite place serves just about everything except Fugu!

Andrew Knowlton stuffs Chilean Seabass up his rectum... that's why he doesn't recommend that you eat it - you never know where it's been... :)

Springtime - my understanding of why not to eat orange roughy is that
this fish grows very slowly, and this was not known in the 70's when it became so popular. As a result the larger fish best to harvest were actually the mature adults, and it almost wiped out the breeding population over the next 10-15 years. It's scary that more fish are now popping up on the endangered list so quickly.

I spent 20 yrs. as a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico and I can assure you the author of this article has about as much brains as a squid used for bait. The US fleet provides this country with a wide assortment of fin fish and shell fish from sustainable fisheries. The red snapper is an excellent example of the recovery a stock can make. Wake-up America and quit listening to the tree huggers.

Blue fin tuna is like eating a Panda Bear?? What kind of BS is that? You're a loser..........

I can't find a name of who wrote the article, but I want to thank them very much, it has inspired me a great deal. I now am much more confident about my ability to write. Although the information is interesting and I was impressed with the thought that foreign raised fish could be raised in polluted water. Never really considered that before, I thought it interesting that there was much emphasize placed on don't eat farm raised fish throughout the article and it wasn't mentioned until the end as to why. I am sure that all the damage being done to domestic fish farmers will endure for a long long time. Most people will skim through the article and never see the "however." and avoid all farm raised fish and cost the American farmers much money and loose out on the benefits of some very healthy fish. No. . . . . . I have nothing to do with fish farming, I'm upset because "the way" the article was written I came very close to considering giving up my beloved farm raised catfish nuggets.

What about our Texas delicious fried catfish,any comments on it, I know you can't beat it when it comes to good taste !!!!!

I thought this was supposed to be REAL news, and not a bunch of hippie garbage.

Fish farms have to feed their livestock. If the fish eat zooplankton, then it is harvested from the polar seas, where it is essential to the health of the polar ecosystem. If the fish eat phytoplankton, then it comes out of arable that could be used to raise food for people. With every remove from its source, fish protein costs more in energy, both direct photosynthetic proceding through the food chain, and indirectly in transportation of feed as well as end product. Therefore, fish farms are NOT the future, unless we concede that in order to gratify our urge to reproduce recklessly, we can destroy our arable base and out polar ecosystems. This foolish attitude will lead to a global Easter Island syndrome, in which natural ecological balances are destroyed and people stalk each other for food. If you think that fish farms are the future, then prepare yourself for the consequences by buying the Donner Pass Cookbook.

Every month, 50 thousand kilograms, roghly 100 thousand pounds, of pure cow fat (I don't know the precise word in english)are sent from Uruguay, my country, to Chile in order to feed farmed salmon, which is
exported to many destinations. This is all we can do with such amount of fat. The salmons love it. And the importers eat it.

That was one of the most horribly written articles I've ever read.

Why in your article you mention "AVOID CHILEAN SEA BASS", I don't understand why you said that. I would like to know if you based your comment in a scientific study, you don't say nothing about it. The Pacific ocean is so clean, not polution at all. I was lucky to be there and you can eat these delicious and fresh fish after one hour they have been caught. Enjoy the fresh Chilean seafood, fish, fruits and vegetables... and why not a Good Glass of Chilean Wine. Adios, Bye.. An American that visited CHILE.

Boy now I know why I don't eat fish. I do feed wild salmon and yellowfin tuna to my cat. Should I stop this also? She is a very expensive double registered out of grand champion parents. I would hate to lose her because I pay 98 cents for a tiny can of cat food.

If we listened to every article that told us what NOT to eat, we'd all be dead from starvation by now.

It's all a bunch of crap.......... No facts, just opinion.
My god, if we listened to everyone who gets an article published, we wouldn't eat anything except organically grown lettuce with no dressing and 8 glasses of water a day.

Eat what you want......but in MODERATION.

After reading the artical by Andrew Knowlton I can only conclude that he is full of crap!

Forgot to add that I am apparently a hippie, by the standards of some readers. But I'm a hippie with experience as a commercial fisherman, a woodlot manager, and with a PhD in marine environmental history. You want to eat fish, eat fish caught by American fishermen in American waters, or Canadian fishermen in Canadian waters. Want to eat farmed fish? Then eat catfish, carp or tilapia, but even those farmed species disrupt the ecosystem by eating food links broken out of the food chain.

As a life time fisherman I am suspicious of articles like this . They seem more pointed to unreliable green agendas than to actual fact. Many game species which are easily obtainable and non endangered are not even mentioned . Yellow perch and black or white crappie are so delicious they may make converts out of people who have never tried them . The secret to making small panfish edible is to learn the art of filleting even small fish. A very keen knife and some knowledge of anatomy of bony fishes is all thats required.