I live on the gulf coast and have had many friends and family members (including my husband, daughter, and mother) get sick after eating shrimp, crawfish, oysters, salmon, and flounder. Their symptoms only last a day or 2 and they believe it's a stomach bug, but when you consider we've all been in contact and the only ones getting sick are the ones eating seafood/shellfish. I believe this is coming from all the toxins that have been released into the rivers. They've had plenty of time to travel to the gulf and be absorbed by the creatures that dwell in it if it hadnt killed them. The last time i saw this many people get sick off seafood was after the BP Oil Spill. I cant seem to find any reportings on it, so if you have, please share.
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Gosh, that's disturbing. I just bought some gulf shrimp the other day.
It may be local, but I saw the same thing after the flood of 2019, which made a huge dead zone and fish kill by LA/MS/AL. After a few times getting sick eating seafood that year, I stopped. It didn't matter how far the fishermen went out, everything was sickly. This year, there's a huge red tide / algae bloom from basically Florida to Africa. You can already smell it on land (source). So I'd be wary. Of course Florida has other areas to fish around red tide; rest of the gulf sometimes cannot.
Fish have a special way of making you sick that cooking won't help. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scombroid_food_poisoning
Shellfish probably accumulate more garbage. Crayfish should be fed lettuce for a few days to clean them out, ceviche is famous for hepatitis, raw oysters are a bad idea, and they can all have toxins from pollution and algae that is in their environment. Canned fish have to be processed longer than other kinds of meat. https://www.newhealthadvisor.org/Food-Poisoning-from-Fish.html
Hola caballero
It would probably show up in bottom feeders first.
Red Tide impact?
I suspect that chem poisoning from food, would last longer than 2 days and maybe be cumulative .. worse every time. What do water tests show for your immediate waters?
Watch the water.....
https://www.nrdc.org/press-releases/fda-allowed-unsafe-levels-contaminants-seafood-after-bp-oil-spill-study-finds
I was down in Apalachicola last winter and both myself and my wife got the naaasty shits from all the oysters we ate. Lasted about a day then we were fine iirc.
They like to serve them roasted on the half shell with melted cheese and jalapenos so maybe it was that aspect. We don't really eat a lot of fake processed cheese.
I remember reading in the local news that they were having water disputes with the city of Atlanta, who takes all their drinking water from upstream apalachicola river. The shellfisheries need the fresh water and particulate leaf matter to spawn the oysters or something.