Food alert: Pig frog legs caught in the Everglades could have high mercury levels

[Breeze54]

Food alert: Pig frog legs caught in the Everglades could have high mercury levels

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2008/05/15/0515froglegs.html

By ELIOT KLEINBERG

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Thursday, May 15, 2008

WEST PALM BEACH- —

If you've been skirting the high price of frog legs by catching your own, the state wants you to go easy.

After finding high levels of mercury in pig frogs in South Florida water conservation areas south of Palm Beach County,
the state's department of health and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission this week issued an advisory to limit eating of frog legs.

It says women of childbearing age, and young children, should eat no more than two 8-ounce (raw weight)
meals of frog-leg meat per week from water conservation areas 2A and 2B, southwest of the Loxahatchee National
Wildlife Refuge; no more than one 8-ounce meal per month from areas 3A North and South, and no more than
one 8-ounce meal from area 3B.

Everyone else should limit themselves to two 8-ounce meals a week, the advisory said.

The health department said mercury increases the risk of nervous system damage.

The advisory reminded people to eat only fish that are low in mercury.

People catching any frog for personal use don't need a recreational license, can hunt year-round,
and have no amount or size limits except in certain areas.

They don't have to worry about me!
I'll limit myself to ZERO ounces per week!
I won't be eating any frogs anytime soon! :P

:bounce: :bounce:

[Parche]

1. This News Does Not Make Me Too Hoppy

:woohoo: :woohoo:

Poor Kermit

[Breeze54]

2. LOL!

:spray:

:P

[Crunchy Frog]

3. People shouldn't be eating frogs anyway.

My username notwithstanding.

[Breeze54]

4. LOL....

:P

[NV Whino]

5. Pig frogs?

The imagination reels.
Oik?

[Breeze54]

10. Pig Frog. (Rana grylio)

[xchrom]

6. i'm not eating anything called a pig frog.

that just calls up images of mutant critters -- and bad, bad sci-fi movies and uncomfortable nights at the drive-in.

[marmar]

7. Agreed....Sounds like you're eating Rush Limbaugh or something....

:scared:

[Breeze54]

8. LMFAO!

:rofl:

:puke:

[xchrom]

9. g-a-a-c-k!!! -- you single handidly made me

:puke:

[shanti]

11. they don't have to worry about me!

i wouldn't touch a pig frog if its life depended on it! :rofl: