Thoughts on eating from Sydney Harbour?

[CDVDEAN]

Gday raiders,

Just thought i would start a thread asking what your thoughts are about eating from Sydney Harbour??

Just had a massive feed of pan fried yakkas... Yum!

Your feedback would be appreciated!

Dean.

[Linc]

The government says don't eat anything from west of the bridge so I stick to that but depending on the species I'd eat non-territorial species from west if I caught them, but maybe not a bream or something that sticks around one spot all its life

[Guest no one]

Personally I wouldn't... Can catch much better quality eating else where near. Suppose the odd king wouldnt be too bad though, but think... would you eat a lamb that was kept in a barn with a car engine running into it?

[Krispy !]

I've eaten plenty from west of the bridge, there's no problem with schooling fish like yakkas kings trevally bonito etc however with bream flathead and to some extent Jews there might be some bioaccumulation. Right now the harbour is very clean even past the bridge so I don't think there is much of an issue with eating west of the bridge, it's not like there's a magic line separating clean water from polluted water.

[Witha]

I'm with Linc, pretty much stay away from west of bridge for a feed (perfect example is to go look at the massive industrial stuff still going on in rozelle etc and that this has been going on for century +) but transient species you'd probably be fine, as the water quality is fine now but its the sediment is the issue, where species like bream whiting flatties feed and live. Pelagics I think you'd be ok

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[mike2153]

Is eat anything west if the bridge quite happily as long as it isn't frequently and fish like bream flatties etc salmon tailor bonny kingie is eat all the time out if the harbour no issues at all

[Witha]

The govt warning isnt that the fish will make you ill immediately its to do with long term buildup of toxins and heavy metals, infrequent eating should be fine I guess the idea was to avoid issues like that generation of harbour fishermen who got dioxin (I think) and heavy metals poisoning over their lives

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[rockfisherman]

There is specified qauntities for every fish east if the harbour bridge. Bream is 150g a month, which isn't much. But other species like flathead and whiting have reasonable consumption rates.

I suppose the bream allowance is so low because they eat oysters, which are filters. Mullet from memory was only 50g a month.

Harry

If it's to good to be true, it usually is...

[Linc]

I suppose the bream allowance is so low because they eat oysters, which are filters.

Also remember a legal sized bream is already decades old, so he was around back when the harbour might not have been so clean and he's probably done his bit on cleaning up some of the crap on the bottom of the harbour in his time and had plenty of time for the dioxins to get well into his flesh.