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This is The Amount of This Food You Should Be Eating

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This is One Scary Thing You Should know About These Fish?



Growing up, I have always enjoyed fishing, and so do most people in Jamaica. I think it’s fair to say that most people who live in the tropics or close to the ocean or any body of water with fish enjoy fishing. Ironically, there are certain fish that are known to have caused poisoning. However, those are the fish that some people enjoy hunting. As you can see in this video, these spearfishers --- although they speared other fish --- were fishing mainly for barracudas.

You can get ciguatera fish poisoning by eating fish contaminated with toxins produced by tiny algae found around coral reefs in tropical and subtropical climates. However, it’s believed that the poison does not affect all reef fish and deep-sea fish, such as tuna and wahoo.

Nonetheless, it is not always easy to determine whether a fish is contaminated or not, as the toxins that cause ciguatera do not alter the appearance, taste, or odor of the fish. Also, cooking does not get rid of the toxins.

Ciguatera can accumulate in smaller reef fish, then pass on to bigger reef fish that eat these smaller fish. For this reason, you may want to avoid fish such as barracuda, moray eel, grouper, amberjack, sea bass, sturgeon, parrot fish, surgeonfish, and red snapper. The liver, intestines, eggs, and head of these fish especially have the highest concentration of toxins.

As I watch these different spearfishing videos, sometimes I hear some of these divers questioning the possibility of these barracudas being poisonous, in particular the much larger ones. However, they say that because flies or other small sea insects(on their bodies)are not avoiding them, that’s usually a clear sign that those caught are not poisonous.

Source: Center for Disease Control(CDC)

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