Fire99
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Well now we're back 3400 years, what's the prognosis regarding harbour Mullet? To eat or not to eat, that is the question.. (Now we're touching on Shakespeare 
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Is it safe to eat fish caught in a marina?
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simon barefoot
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L'escargot, I gave up commercial fishing 15 years ago, but I still stand by my statement. However, maybe I am just lucky that all my mullet come from tidal Cornish waters and are therefore blessed to be tasty by St Piran himself.
Searush
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Quite; however scientific knowledge has advanced slightly since then & only fundamentalists would consider it still valid.
catmandoo
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Only a small minority of people (for statistical reasons) will immediately concur with the following statement, which has stood the test of time:
"Consumption of fish that do not have scales is not suitable for human consumption, on the basis that scaled fish discharge absorbed poisons via their scales, whereas shell fish and sea creatures that do not have scales retain all or some of them".
I remember the marina at la medelena in Straighrt betwwen Corsica sn Sardinia where the fish next to my boat were huge and feeding off the effluent on the adjacent town sewer . i could only think about the female hormones in that stream resulting from the towns females on the pill so I did not eat fish in the restaurants . did not want to lose my deep masculine voice . SQUEEK
grazbo
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You gotta be kidding L Ron ? Quoting scriptures ? What's your advice on eating swine ?
Personally, I wouldn't choose to eat anything that lives near large concentrations of people. Marinas, sewage outlets, chemical run-off.....
No problem with fish having an occasional jobby snack - but not if it's the main source of nutrition.
l'escargot
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Read the thread. It wasn't my advice, someone else quoted it - I just identified the source as being 3400 years old. Make of it what you will.
You will also see that I wouldn't choose to eat fish from marinas for hygiene reasons and not biblical ones.
grazbo
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Fair enough - I thought I had read it, but I can't be bothered to re-read. Case closed.
maby
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Even if you don't believe the mythology in the ancient scriptures, many of the supposedly religious rules had some basis in common sense. Most of the ten commandments are just simple standards of behaviour that help a large group of people to live close together effectively!
Dabhand
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Mullet will eat anything, and I mean anything providing it is fairly soft. Many years ago in my youth we used to fish for mullet in the sewage outfall at Hopes Nose in Torquay. This is now long gone and the water at Hopes Nose is crystal clear, or at least most of the time.
The technique was to trot a small float out in the flow of raw s*** from the outfall to the waiting mullet. Certainly a lot ot big mullet came from there and knowing some of the 'professional fishermen' who went there, I suspect more than a few may have made their way to the fish market.
The biggest problem was the toilet paper that wrapped itself around the line, another difficulty was the 'little white mice' that emerged, they were a devil to remove. As to the nature of these I will leave that to your imagination.
Unfortunately my stomach was not strong enough to fish here for more than a couple of short sessions so I left it to those with a stronger constitution.
I still find it unbelievable that no one to my knowledge went down with some horrible disease.
The technique was to trot a small float out in the flow of raw s*** from the outfall to the waiting mullet. Certainly a lot ot big mullet came from there and knowing some of the 'professional fishermen' who went there, I suspect more than a few may have made their way to the fish market.
The biggest problem was the toilet paper that wrapped itself around the line, another difficulty was the 'little white mice' that emerged, they were a devil to remove. As to the nature of these I will leave that to your imagination.
Unfortunately my stomach was not strong enough to fish here for more than a couple of short sessions so I left it to those with a stronger constitution.
I still find it unbelievable that no one to my knowledge went down with some horrible disease.
