Eating Chinaman Fish
Submitted by marble on Sun, 2010-06-27 08:46
Bec got this nice chinaman yesterday and I threw it back. Talking to some other blokes during the day they have eaten them with no problems. . . Has anyone had any problems with them ever or are they just not ever eaten ?
Cheers Ben
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Nelly
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From what i understand there
From what i understand there fine to eat over here (west coast) but you are at risk of ciguatera poisioning if eating fish taken from the east coast
uncle
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eating
there ok over here have eaten many with no probs
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Faulkner Family
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caught them , eaten them and
caught them , eaten them and still alive
. they are all good on the west coast but not on the east coast. they are good eating too
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pale ale
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Eat em!!!! Geez they pull
Eat em!!!!
Geez they pull hard!!
jay_burgess
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yep we eat them all the time.
yep we eat them all the time.
just dhu it
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eat them
all the ones i have caught in exy we have eaten, i have been told the ones from the warmer regions ie top end and indo waters have the problem , also been told that if you only eat the occasional piece your body can digets the poison but if eaten for several days in row the poison builds up and down you go
wadetolley
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yes
Yes mate, they are ment to be ok in Wa. But where i am you cant eat them. The locals also have a 8ocm rule for reef fish over here. Any fish over 80cm they put back, as the other guys have said, the older the fish is, they greater the amount of ciguatera they will have in them.
Cam
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Edible but!
The same goes with any larger predatory fish such as Coral Trout, Macks etc Far North and East only. No cases of Cig in WA.
mullows
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Great fun to catch and great
Great fun to catch and great on the fang as well.
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mitch
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eaten quite a few of the
eaten quite a few of the smaller ones.but any over about 8 kg we throw back due to possible build up of toxins in the older fish .west coast that is .cam have read an article in the western angler about cig poisoning here in the west was a few years ago but was deffinately cig
marble
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Cheers for that . . . now I
Cheers for that . . . now I gotta delete the thread before Bec sees that we could have kept and eaten it . . . just have to go again next weekend and get another one now .
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Cam
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Wangler
Mitch, i did read an article years ago but it was large Mack fillets on a boat coming from Darwin and got sick off Wyndham. I would rule it out though.
Indiana
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Hey Ben
No problem with eating these in WA.
They are not in my top 10 eating fish , but I've also eaten a lot worse
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crasny1
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First fish we caught up here in Karratha off the boat was 2
Chinaman. Threw the small one back and feasted on the other. Very nice. No cases of Ciquetera in the Pilbara and below, but the closer you get to the NT border I would start to be concerned a little with specific fish like Chinaman, red bass, baracouda (who eats them anyway) and larger reef fish like CTrout etc.
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They're protected (no take)
They're protected (no take) on the east coast (Qld) as are Bass. Not rare at all, but I believe they were made protected over here to stop people eating them/pros selling them and people getting sick.