if there's one thing that I can't stand, that's when some online news article commenter tries to tell me he knows more than me. And, by golly, i would be MAN enough (or again woman enough as the case may be) to defend my integrity, my intelligence, my credibility, my honor against such heinous attacks.

I mean REALLY. Is there no decency among men (or women as the case may be) anymore?

Talk about CHILDISH behavior!

if there's one thing that I can't stand, that's when some online news article commenter tries to tell me he knows more than me. And, by golly, i would be MAN enough (or again woman enough as the case may be) to defend my integrity, my intelligence, my credibility, my honor against such heinous attacks.

I mean REALLY. Is there no decency among men (or women as the case may be) anymore?

Talk about CHILDISH behavior!

if there's one thing that I can't stand, that's when some online news article commenter tries to tell me he knows more than me. And, by golly, i would be MAN enough (or again woman enough as the case may be) to defend my integrity, my intelligence, my credibility, my honor against such heinous attacks.

I mean REALLY. Is there no decency among men (or women as the case may be) anymore?

Talk about CHILDISH behavior!

Best to brush up on the facts

And your “observer on every boat”…what BS. The fisheries guys can't even manage to keep one guy on duty at each of the landing docks, let alone one on each boat.

I got a BS in Biology in the 70's and have really been entertained by the 'fear this' media and their cutesy stories about poisonous fish caught and eaten. I personally will not fear the fish from my local streams unless the advisories quote the species tested and the place from which they were taken, by river and by location on that river. Many, many of the written advisories are just passed on, recycled news stories taken out of context and clearly designed to scare us.

I'm NOT saying be ignorant, but rather, be INFORMED. Look for the specifics. Heed the specific and credibly supported articles and learn to spot the recycled bull-oney. If an article appears that warns about fish and it does NOT include “caught exactly from THIS stretch of THAT river, by name,” AND it does NOT include “exacltly WHAT lab did the test and WHAT toxins in EXACTLY THESE concentrations,” then it is likely bull-oney. You don't have to know everything to avoid being driven before the bull-oneyistic cattle drivers. Just ask yourself if you'd pay money for the information being peddled.

Many people will state that we the public don't have the capacity to understand the specifics. Maybe that is so, but I maintain that far, far more DO have that capacity, and even those who do not are not necessarily too ignorant to spot a scam when they see it coming.

One last thing to bear in mind. A fish in the skillet, even if poisonous in the long term, won't necessarily kill you as fast as starvation or the illnesses of malnutrition that come to the poorly nourished.