Jin Yu- (Metal Fish) What Is in Our Fish May Come Back and Bite Us

Eating fish can be healthy with high protein, low fat and heart- protective compounds like Omega 3s.
However, not all fish are healthy to consume on a regular basis. Also, large predators like tuna, king mackerel, swordfish, and especially sharks accumulate mercury at levels that can be toxic to consumers.

During the covid crisis questions circled around where Covid emanated from as millions died. Was it a lab in Wuhan or transmission from the wildlife trade in China?

The pandemic brought a global scrutiny to health and disease transmission. Yet, we are exposed to more insidious health threats through other avenues, especially diet. Asians, including Asian Americans, are among the highest fish consumers per capita. Associated with this increased consumption are higher levels of methyl-mercury and the linked health risks from mercury toxicity.

During the lockdown the Shark Stewards team in Hong Kong and San Francisco analyzed methyl mercury we collected from fish samples collected in Asian fish markets before the pandemic.

With our students we published a paper in the Asian Journal of Health https://journalofasianhealth.org/inde...
on the associated risks to Chinese and Asian Americans.

In the study and film are recommendations to reduce health risk, and support wildlife conservation by respecting wildlife, consuming less large predators, especially shark fin soup for the health of humans and the ocean.
Learn more at Shark Steweards.org