Keeping halibut caught inside harbor

[Saba Slayer]

X2 - Andy Says..."I do not think halibut are residents of the bays, they move in and out."
I agree...it's usually about the spawn...

[alanw]

Worms/parasites aren't the problem, its the toxins from the bays you can't see or cut out that's problematic. There is a study floating around somewhere about how bad SD bay is. I probably wouldn't eat anything out of there. http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/learn/fishable/sediment

[Saba Slayer]

Originally Posted by alanw

Worms/parasites aren't the problem, its the toxins from the bays you can't see or cut out that's problematic. There is a study floating around somewhere about how bad SD bay is. I probably wouldn't eat anything out of there. http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/learn/fishable/sediment

WOW...how about some of those big resident Bugs ...some of these guys are over 20 or 30 years old. Cockroaches Del Mar.
The EPA...or whats left of it...LOL...has only been around a relatively short while...and the Navy and local commercial businesses have been dumping toxins in there for years....!

Eating the local/resident fish is not wise...but as Andy said...and I agree...a lot of the other smaller harbors have the fish moving in to spawn.
I can't catch Halibut in the harbors most of the year as well as I can in the spring and early summer...

[NICKWORN]

So all of us who are eating Lobster from the BigBay are going to die!!



Best thing I've heard all day!!

[ful-rac]

Just eat the halibut...unless there is something visually wrong with them...3 eyes and 2 tails would be a little red flag...I guess I'm lucky, as I have never seen or caught one with 3 eyes or 2 tails yet...

As long as they look good, I don't see any problem with eating them. Worms are just a fact of life, they are easy to spot, just pick them out or cut them out. Here's a tip...when the fish are alive the worms are usually located in the guts of the fish. After the fish dies the worms start to migrate into the meat. So clean them and or gut them asap, otherwise like I said...pick them out.


I wonder if cannibals from the amazon would eat us....? Or if they would worry about all the chemicals, drugs and antibiotics, smog and plastic surgery that people around here have?

[Fiskadoro]

I've eaten halibut from Redondo, Long Beach and San Pedro, but draw the line at MDR. There are big fish in MDR and the are there year round but I don't eat them. Lobsters do not hold the toxins I'd worry about. Last report on them I saw gave them a clean bill of health at all the local harbors.

[NICKWORN]

Wouldn't cooking the fish kill all worms? So are we talking about eating Halibut raw, which i wouldn't recommend out of any bay, but cooked, no need to worry.

[jorluivil]

I've been eating them for years and I'm perfectly fine
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[wiredantz]

Originally Posted by jorluivil

I've been eating them for years and I'm perfectly fine
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I object.....

I rescind my objection... That pretty much how Jorge looks like now

[YakHanded]

Santa ana river mouth, doheny river mouth... any spillway... its all poop these days.. just eat em if you catch one you want to keep.