If you’re worried you’ll wake up deathly ill after eating a fish dinner tonight, you should realize the culprit probably won’t be PCBs, dioxins, mercury, pesticides or other harmful contaminants listed in state and federal fish-consumption advisories.
Yes, you should heed the agencies’ advice, but also realize none of the 4,000 fish advisories currently circulating in the U.S. tells people to stop eating all fish now. Most such warnings...