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The message is not to do away with fish in your diet. What's needed is a shift away from high-mercury species to those with much lower levels. That should be easy to do for most consumers if they had the right information.

Caroline Smith DeWaal

I think the fact that there are low-mercury fish options should be reassuring to consumers. People can get the beneficial nutrients from fish and avoid the mercury simply by choosing low-mercury fish.

Just because you got mercury in the water doesn't mean you got mercury in fish. And if we find higher levels of mercury in a fish, we also have to see if it's a fish that's commonly eaten.

From the standpoint of public health, the real risk for the public is not getting enough fish and canned tuna in the diet. We need to end the confusion over mercury in fish for the welfare of all Americans and especially low income consumers whose health will benefit the most from consuming fish and canned tuna on a regular basis. Those who depend on canned tuna the most need to know how healthy and safe this product is.

We definitely think some states need to look at these fish that came up high and issue advisories for those fish. Fishermen should know which are the high mercury fish. We don't think this study is the final word.

Our customers know it's out there and they are concerned. Now we have a way of addressing it and offering information to help them make informed decisions. They will have confidence that the fish they purchase has been certified by Safe Harbor and it contains mercury levels below what the government has determined to be acceptable.

While fish is one of the best food sources of omega 3 fatty acids, we have been warned to limit consumption because of high mercury levels. These animals could represent an alternative source.

Although employment levels remain high, particularly here in Florida, consumers are being squeezed by high energy prices and high levels of debt. Consumers are certainly beginning to curtail their spending in reaction to the rise in gasoline.

We know that mercury builds up in fish, especially fish higher up in the food chain. Mercury bio-accumulates in the tissues.

This is good information for monitoring, but we already alert people -- especially women, infants and children -- that bass is in the high category for mercury, ... These levels wouldn't change our advisory.

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Fish is very good for you. But people need to be aware of the levels of mercury in different kinds.

A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. It's a major public health failing on (the FDA's) part, ... and we feel quite strongly that they need to aggressively look into the problem of mercury contamination of fish, expand the list of fish that women need to avoid and get this information out to the medical community and to women in a much more aggressive way.

They don't fully understand levels of mercury in fish and they're trying to provide advice to people based on shoddy science.

In 22 states parents can’t take kids fishing and eat the fish if they’re lucky enough to catch anything because of mercury. Think about that. In 44% of all river bodies and streams it’s not safe to fish or swim. And yet industrial polluters continue to block legislation that would prevent mercury and MTBE from polluting our water supplies and leaving children with debilitating diseases.

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