Re: Boiled Green Peanuts

On 11/4/2024 2:51 AM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 3 Nov 2024, Citizen Winston Smith wrote:
 

On 11/3/2024 3:07 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

Being apex predators is not the biggest problem. Fish who inhabit reefs

are notorious for high levels of  Ciguatoxin which can lead to ciguatera poisoning. The fish carrying the toxin show no symptoms.

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Wrong!
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You can see it as a yellow tint to the flesh when filleted out.
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 And surely this would vary depending on the location? I could easily imagine that some areas are free of this, while in other areas it is worse?

I'm not an authority to say, but where I experienced it was in very warm water shallows fishing.
But even then it was only a few that were tainted.