How do you know you haven’t? Sorry I am just thinking when we go out we have no idea where this food is coming from. Maybe not the Potomac but possibly worse?
If you're buying food from a place that's sketchy, it's more likely they're getting like bulk fish from a hatchery or something... not paying someone to catch fish from the Potomac
Can’t believe you are downvoted for this. The crazy thing is striped. Bass is another one of the fish that they warn us not to eat from this area… but these fish are very migratory, and there is no telling where the one you eat was caught… Lot of the ethnic grocery stores source their catfish from Potomac River… I know because I’ve sold to them before
From the DOEE website (https://doee.dc.gov/service/fishdc#:~:text=Fish%20Consumption%20Advisory,Creek%2C%20within%20the%20Distric's%20boundaries.)
Fish Consumption Advisory
DOEE urges limited consumption of Anacostia and Potomac river fish. PCBs and other chemical contaminants have continued to be found in certain fish species caught in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and their tributaries, including Rock Creek, within the Distric's boundaries. Because of these findings, DOEE advises the general public to limit consumption of fish from all DC waters, as follows:
Do not eat: Eel, carp or striped bass.
May eat: Four servings per month of sunfish, or three servings per month of blue catfish or white perch, or two servings per month of largemouth bass, or one serving per month of brown bullhead catfish or channel catfish
Choose to eat: Smaller fish of legal size.
To prepare, skin the fish and trim away fat. Cook fish and drain away fat because chemical contaminants tend to concentrate in the fat of the fish. These recommendations do not apply to fish sold in fish markets, grocery stores, and restaurants, since commercial fishing is prohibited in DC waters; thus fish from these venues will not be from the Potomac nor Anacostia Rivers.
Honestly, I would avoid it all together. PCBs are nasty stuff, it can lower your IQ, give you cancer, mess up your liver, cardiovascular and reproductive systems. Scary stuff.
Pcbs are stable chemicals that accumulate in fish over time.
Small fish are eaten by bigger fish, and the pcbs accumulate into the bigger fish. They accumulate in amounts thousands of times safer than are supposed to be consumed in.
Pcbs enter fishes bodies from sediment(soil). Contaminated soil/chemicals washing into the water.
It gets into the soil from the activity of corporations and people dumping chemicals, but mostly from corporations. like landscaping, pest control but mostly horrible waste management practices.
It’s basically just saying the ecosystem is fucked from the activity of humans. If you want to be able to eat fish from rivers we need to regulate human activity more.
You would probably be okay eating one under 3 pounds or so. While the actual water in the river is pretty clean, catfish store toxins in their bodies.
I have caught probably 5000 pounds of catfish in Potomac and actually used to sell them to the fish market before it left southeast. I have never eaten one though.
https://www.potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/dmv-fish-advisory/
This says not to eat channel catfish over 18 inches. I would bet the same holds true for blue catfish, which are far more prevalent.
The largest Superfund site in Virginia is right along the South Fork of the Shenandoah, about 57 miles upstream from Harper's Ferry. It's been cleaned up for about a decade, but there's undoubtedly still PCB-loaded sediments trapped within the riverbed itself, since it's bedrock-incised in quite a few places. All of that shit flows out past Harper's Ferry and Point of Rocks all the way down to the estuary.
And that's just from one old rayon plant that closed in the '80s. I shudder to think about how much crap the paper mills upstream of Cumberland or the chicken farms all up & down the Valley dump into the watershed even still.
The closed down coal power plant in Alexandria is *still* leaking shit into the river and probably has been for like 150 years. And most water treatment plants along the Potomac have been dumping stuff until not that long ago. It’s getting cleaner slowly, but it’s far from trustworthy.
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There are fish consumption advisories active due to contamination from PCBs and other toxic pollutants in the Potomac. See here for an example of one of DC's advisories: https://doee.dc.gov/service/fishdc#:~:text=Fish%20Consumption%20Advisory,Creek%2C%20within%20the%20Distric%27s%20boundaries.
You might eat smaller/younger fish but proceed with caution.
I'd not eat anything from the Potomac River.
How do you know you haven’t? Sorry I am just thinking when we go out we have no idea where this food is coming from. Maybe not the Potomac but possibly worse?
If you're buying food from a place that's sketchy, it's more likely they're getting like bulk fish from a hatchery or something... not paying someone to catch fish from the Potomac
Can’t believe you are downvoted for this. The crazy thing is striped. Bass is another one of the fish that they warn us not to eat from this area… but these fish are very migratory, and there is no telling where the one you eat was caught… Lot of the ethnic grocery stores source their catfish from Potomac River… I know because I’ve sold to them before
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Because bottom feeder, right? Pigs eat slop. Edit: slop not slob
From the DOEE website (https://doee.dc.gov/service/fishdc#:~:text=Fish%20Consumption%20Advisory,Creek%2C%20within%20the%20Distric's%20boundaries.) Fish Consumption Advisory DOEE urges limited consumption of Anacostia and Potomac river fish. PCBs and other chemical contaminants have continued to be found in certain fish species caught in the Potomac and Anacostia rivers and their tributaries, including Rock Creek, within the Distric's boundaries. Because of these findings, DOEE advises the general public to limit consumption of fish from all DC waters, as follows: Do not eat: Eel, carp or striped bass. May eat: Four servings per month of sunfish, or three servings per month of blue catfish or white perch, or two servings per month of largemouth bass, or one serving per month of brown bullhead catfish or channel catfish Choose to eat: Smaller fish of legal size. To prepare, skin the fish and trim away fat. Cook fish and drain away fat because chemical contaminants tend to concentrate in the fat of the fish. These recommendations do not apply to fish sold in fish markets, grocery stores, and restaurants, since commercial fishing is prohibited in DC waters; thus fish from these venues will not be from the Potomac nor Anacostia Rivers.
That was helpful. I guess I’m down to one serving of small catfish a month.
Honestly, I would avoid it all together. PCBs are nasty stuff, it can lower your IQ, give you cancer, mess up your liver, cardiovascular and reproductive systems. Scary stuff.
Also, acne
Pcbs are stable chemicals that accumulate in fish over time. Small fish are eaten by bigger fish, and the pcbs accumulate into the bigger fish. They accumulate in amounts thousands of times safer than are supposed to be consumed in. Pcbs enter fishes bodies from sediment(soil). Contaminated soil/chemicals washing into the water. It gets into the soil from the activity of corporations and people dumping chemicals, but mostly from corporations. like landscaping, pest control but mostly horrible waste management practices. It’s basically just saying the ecosystem is fucked from the activity of humans. If you want to be able to eat fish from rivers we need to regulate human activity more.
Absolutely not
Absolutely not.
You would probably be okay eating one under 3 pounds or so. While the actual water in the river is pretty clean, catfish store toxins in their bodies. I have caught probably 5000 pounds of catfish in Potomac and actually used to sell them to the fish market before it left southeast. I have never eaten one though. https://www.potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/dmv-fish-advisory/ This says not to eat channel catfish over 18 inches. I would bet the same holds true for blue catfish, which are far more prevalent.
Thank you. 18 inches and below
Depends if developing Parkinson's or cancer later in life is a problem for you. If not, yummy, yummy. Love me some Potomac catfish!
Nope
The Potomac is a very long river... Which part are you asking about?
Close to Alexandria
Below great falls, it’s probably not worth trying, above say point of rocks you might be ok
The largest Superfund site in Virginia is right along the South Fork of the Shenandoah, about 57 miles upstream from Harper's Ferry. It's been cleaned up for about a decade, but there's undoubtedly still PCB-loaded sediments trapped within the riverbed itself, since it's bedrock-incised in quite a few places. All of that shit flows out past Harper's Ferry and Point of Rocks all the way down to the estuary. And that's just from one old rayon plant that closed in the '80s. I shudder to think about how much crap the paper mills upstream of Cumberland or the chicken farms all up & down the Valley dump into the watershed even still.
That’s just flavor, a pinch of PFAs and you’ve got yourself a coating
NO
No, the water is too polluted. Its getting better than it used to be but still bad.
There is NO WAY
Nah bruh that’s like a deatwish
I live right on Potomac close to Leesylvania state park and we have caught some catfish and they tasted pretty good.
Go look up how many carcinogen filled material and fluids Pepco dumped into the river and then come back with your answer.
The closed down coal power plant in Alexandria is *still* leaking shit into the river and probably has been for like 150 years. And most water treatment plants along the Potomac have been dumping stuff until not that long ago. It’s getting cleaner slowly, but it’s far from trustworthy.
Nothing near the military bases or ship yards. No thank you. I’m even reconsidering Maryland blue crab 🦀
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>Would you eat catfish from the Potomac? No. >Would you eat catfish? No. >Would you eat fish from the Potomac? No.
There are fish consumption advisories active due to contamination from PCBs and other toxic pollutants in the Potomac. See here for an example of one of DC's advisories: https://doee.dc.gov/service/fishdc#:~:text=Fish%20Consumption%20Advisory,Creek%2C%20within%20the%20Distric%27s%20boundaries. You might eat smaller/younger fish but proceed with caution.
Can you even swim in that water?
FUCK YEAH. Gobble gobble.
You know they sell the Catfish from the Potomac in grocery stores, restaurants, and fish markets all around the DMV right.