07-16-2016, 04:08 PM
You shouldl be fine to eat them. The toxins won't be at a harmful level in fish flesh for some time after the bloom happens, and then it will probably be ok. The DEQ did recommend not eating any caught AFTER July 10, but they alway base those recommendations on erring on the extreme side of things, just to play it safe. They aren't absorbing it through their skin, they are taking it in through the food chain which has to start with plankton and then work its way up through bait fish to predator.
I think they are right to close the lake until the water gets cleaned up with a weather event, but I wouldn't get too worried about the safety of the fish just yet. Remember, the algae is always in the lake in a lower level, so the food chain already always has it in the system at some level, but the right conditions just made it bloom really fast this time.
Mike
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I think they are right to close the lake until the water gets cleaned up with a weather event, but I wouldn't get too worried about the safety of the fish just yet. Remember, the algae is always in the lake in a lower level, so the food chain already always has it in the system at some level, but the right conditions just made it bloom really fast this time.
Mike
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