Catfish-Good Or Bad?

I love eating Catfish, I live in Mississippi and we have the best farm
raised Catfish anywhere and our reserviors and rivers produce some really
tasty fish. My doctor at the VA told me to cut back on my Catfish eating to
no more than one serving a week. Well, thier servings arent my servings. One
strip of Catfish dont cut it with me. While at one of our top catfish
restaraunts (Cock of the Walk) yesterday I read that eating Farm Raised
Catfish is actually good for you and good for your heart when it comes to
triglycerides and Amino Acids. So I have to wonder. What is it? Catfish-good
or bad for you?

"Jeff" wrote in message
...
I love eating Catfish, I live in Mississippi and we have the best farm
raised Catfish anywhere and our reserviors and rivers produce some really
tasty fish. My doctor at the VA told me to cut back on my Catfish eating
to
no more than one serving a week. Well, thier servings arent my servings.
One
strip of Catfish dont cut it with me. While at one of our top catfish
restaraunts (Cock of the Walk) yesterday I read that eating Farm Raised
Catfish is actually good for you and good for your heart when it comes to
triglycerides and Amino Acids. So I have to wonder. What is it?
Catfish-good
or bad for you?



NOTE: I am a weekly and at times daily Catfisherman.

The general concern is of toxic products, mostly mercury. Any large
carnivore is what we call a bio-accumulator. What this means is this... As
you go through your life, as fish or person, you are exposed to and pick up
some toxins. Your body is generally unable to get rid of these toxins,
that's why they are toxins. So an animal that eats, say fish, for a living,
gets toxins from the water like any other fish, no problem, but when they
eat other fish, they also get that fish's toxins, and this the start to
accumulate in the cat fish. this is true with all meat eating animals (the
best guess is that this is what caused mad cow.) Over a long time in long
lived animals that can cause problems. The very best example is the
barracuda, the large ones can be lethal, to eat. Best bet, stick to farm
raised and small wild caught ones.

Greg


"Jeff" wrote in message
...
I love eating Catfish, I live in Mississippi and we have the best farm
raised Catfish anywhere and our reserviors and rivers produce some really
tasty fish. My doctor at the VA told me to cut back on my Catfish eating
to
no more than one serving a week. Well, thier servings arent my servings.
One
strip of Catfish dont cut it with me. While at one of our top catfish
restaraunts (Cock of the Walk) yesterday I read that eating Farm Raised
Catfish is actually good for you and good for your heart when it comes to
triglycerides and Amino Acids. So I have to wonder. What is it?
Catfish-good
or bad for you?

greg wrote:
The general concern is of toxic products, mostly mercury. Any large
carnivore is what we call a bio-accumulator. What this means is this... As
you go through your life, as fish or person, you are exposed to and pick up
some toxins. Your body is generally unable to get rid of these toxins,
that's why they are toxins. So an animal that eats, say fish, for a living,
gets toxins from the water like any other fish, no problem, but when they
eat other fish, they also get that fish's toxins, and this the start to
accumulate in the cat fish. this is true with all meat eating animals (the
best guess is that this is what caused mad cow.)

Cows eating fish caused mad cow disease - sure thing.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com

Cows eating fish caused mad cow disease - sure thing
Not exactly, but years ago farmers found out the putting sheep meal and cow
meal (ground by products of the slaughtering process) in to the feed of
livestock, they would grow faster. Thus they turned a herbivore in to a
omnivore, that has to be some sort of crime against nature. So... cow eating
cows may have caused mad cow Dz. It has also occurred in a tribe of humans
who's customs included eating the brains of their relatives after they died
to gain their knowledge, many in the tribe would develop mad cow like
symptoms. Our brains have a molecule called a prion (sp?) that in normal,
low levels is not a problem, but when you consume the brain of another, you
add those prions to yours, thus the accumulation.

See ya


"Ronnie Garrison" wrote in message
...
greg wrote:
The general concern is of toxic products, mostly mercury. Any large
carnivore is what we call a bio-accumulator. What this means is this...
As you go through your life, as fish or person, you are exposed to and
pick up some toxins. Your body is generally unable to get rid of these
toxins, that's why they are toxins. So an animal that eats, say fish, for
a living, gets toxins from the water like any other fish, no problem, but
when they eat other fish, they also get that fish's toxins, and this the
start to accumulate in the cat fish. this is true with all meat eating
animals (the best guess is that this is what caused mad cow.)

Cows eating fish caused mad cow disease - sure thing.

Ronnie

http://fishing.about.com