7 Most Contaminated Fish You Should Avoid Eating

It is said that fish and seafood are a very good source of protein, minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. Fatty fish is a great source of omega-3 fatty acids that maintain good health. These facts are established and impossible to deny.

5. Pacific Ocean Perch
Mercury accumulates in both fish and human body. Whenever you eat fish some certain amount if mercury (and, in some instances, quite significant) gets into your body. Mercury is a poisonous substance. If you know what food chain is, you will easily understand how mercury accumulates in fish. There are plenty of controlled studies that have been carried out for market production of a required species. It appears that mercury found in fish comes from plankton that fish eat. The smaller species of fish is then eaten by the larger species. Along with it, the larger fish gets the mercury accumulated in the smaller fish and so on. The more of smaller fish the larger species eat, the more mercury it contains in the flesh.

6. King Mackerel
Avoid eating king mackerel. Do not trust experts who are trying to convince you that mackerel is safe to eat. The truth is that this fish is full of mercury. If you eat it very often, this dangerous poisonous metal builds up in your body. According to Robert G. Brooks, the secretary of the Florida Department of Health, believes that it is absolutely impossible to get enough mercury from mackerel simply because the fish is caught far out in the ocean. What worries researchers is that pollutants can be spread through the air coming from industrial sources and then end up in the ocean. 

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