Is there any validity in the health risks to eating Oklahoma lake caught fish?

[Snattlerake]

https://oklahoman.com/article/5475644/are-oklahoma-fish-safe-to-eat

I've always heard if you don't want two headed babies don't eat Hefner lake fish.

When I research it Hefner is not one of the 40 on the list.

Thoughts?

 

[TwoForFlinching]

Besides being surrounded by incredibly busy roads, I wonder how much air traffic flies over Hefner?

Like down here by Lawton... So many stunningly beautiful clear water lakes, that probably all contain contamination from field artillery drilling, air force flying and bombing, granite decomposition, ag chems, etc...

Lab grown fish in man-made lakes doesn't sound appetizing to me, though I've never turned down a plate of saugeye or crappie.

 

[Okie4570]

I think it's just like anything else, everything out there can kill you depending on method and amounts. Some just more so than others, mercury in the fish is not high on my "high risk" activity list.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I think it's just like anything else, everything out there can kill you depending on method and amounts. Some just more so than others, mercury in the fish is not high on my "high risk" activity list.

I'd be more concerned with waterborne illnesses like bacterial meningitis passing off handling fish in recently flooded/turned over bodies of water.

 

[Snattlerake]

I like many many others was raised on a farm eating red meat. In fact, my father's favorite saying was, "Knock it's horns off, wipe it's butt and wave it over a match I'm ready to eat." Well, two quad bypasses and a pig valve later he passed last year at 91. Me, after having a quad bypass, and remembering the pain, I don't want another one. Doc says "eat fish". Yeah, right. I think the fish you buy at the store has more Mercury and pathogens than caught fish. You go to a restaurant and pay $15 for a piece of fish 1/4 inch thick that won't even cover a small hamburger bun. Or you can go to fast food fish that is processed whatever and then fried so what's the use?

A year ago I started fishing again after a long hiatus. (I remembered why I quit too.) Let's just say if you want to catch fish, go with me. Everyone I go with catches more fish and I rust hooks. I did catch a smallmouth but it was in Missouri and I had no way of eating it so I threw it back. Ain't caught one since. Figured I would have to go to the fish not bank fish anymore so I'm looking at different marine type floating options.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

You might take up trout fishing. Lab grown, clean meat if your local trout fishery isn't covered in algae blooms with this incredible weather.

 

[Gunbuffer]

All depends on what they’re eating, and where their food lives.
Google biomagnification

 

[Glock 40]

I always wondered what was blown up in the wichita mountain lakes. They have warning signs all over. Some of the others are interesting as they are full of clay. So how did they get contaminated? Possibly fracking and other naughtiness from oil and gas industry?

 

[PBramble]

The flood waters come and go, but the fact that the portapotties and the dumpsters flood keeps me from eating freshwater fish.

 

[TwoForFlinching]

I always wondered what was blown up in the wichita mountain lakes. They have warning signs all over. Some of the others are interesting as they are full of clay. So how did they get contaminated? Possibly fracking and other naughtiness from oil and gas industry?

I imagine the dirt and clay washes in due to the damming of creeks that created all those lakes. flooding the soily creek beds and such.

You should fish the ponds on Fort Sill sometime. They make you take a fishing safety course, which I loathed and laughed at until the day I came across unexploded ordinance lol