Fish advisory (MERCURY) Lake Cumberland

[mhall]

A ramped up Mercury fish eating advisory has been issued for lake Cumberland. KDFWR is saying eating the fish from the lake could be harmful to your health due to the high mercury contents they are continuing to see in fish samples. They believe it's getting worse, full article can be found if you care to read it, I saw it on another site. Catch and release all brown bass as they are holding extreme levels of mercury. Yes this is a serious post and I'm not trying to funny.

[DJD]

Mark,
Man that has been how I look at most fish anymore, too much Mercury. I just don't eat fish that I catch. Right or wrong, I just stay away from eating the fish in this state, 99.9% of the time. hagd

[mhall]

Mark,
Man that has been how I look at most fish anymore, too much Mercury. I just don't eat fish that I catch. Right or wrong, I just stay away from eating the fish in this state, 99.9% of the time. hagd

Yea I'm starting to think the same way Don, sad ain't it?

[Chubminnow]

Other than smallmouth I wouldn't mind eating some of the fish I catch but I'm usually to lazy to mess with cleaning them...Mercury or no mercury, except for if I caught them out of the Ohio. In my own opinion a fish in the Ohio is just one mean critter regardless of the species simply because of the living conditions it endures.

Back to the LC Mercury...I think a person would have to eat a LOT of fish containing mercury before it caused any harm.

Wouldn't the right kind of hot sauce cancel out any mercury? Ok, just kidding...

[yellow20xd]

For crying out loud, as kids didn't we use to play with mercury? I know I did, and as far as I can tell everything ok with my heath... Dan

[barkleyhawggitter]

A ramped up Mercury fish eating advisory has been issued for lake Cumberland. KDFWR is saying eating the fish from the lake could be harmful to your health due to the high mercury contents they are continuing to see in fish samples. They believe it's getting worse, full article can be found if you care to read it, I saw it on another site. Catch and release all brown bass as they are holding extreme levels of mercury. Yes this is a serious post and I'm not trying to funny.

that explaines why i go mad everytime i fish cumberland, MAD I TELL YOU!!!!!

[DJD]

For crying out loud, as kids didn't we use to play with mercury? I know I did, and as far as I can tell everything ok with my heath... Dan

Great point and we played around lead based paints as well. Hmmmm I wonder why we are so fearful of it now? I guess some smart guy figured out that we damaged ourselves beyond repair.

[mhall]

For crying out loud, as kids didn't we use to play with mercury? I know I did, and as far as I can tell everything ok with my heath... Dan

Oh you can bet I'll still eat me some stripers, walleyes and occassionally some Spots out of there.

[chuck north]

This Was On The Louisville News Yesterday. The Report Also Includes Guist Creek Lake. There Was One Other Lake Mentioned.

[peter]

http://chfs.ky.gov/news/Fish+Consumption.htm

Peter

[CTFSHWHISKER]

i heard that also when they test these fish they use the whole fish ground up.
they don't fillet it,they test scales tails and guts.anyone know for sure?eat on,heck i eat cigarette butts when i was a yungin..