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My mind seems to be on some kind of delayed fuse - I read something, then it takes a couple of hours to percolate before I go, "Oh". So, two things.

First, if you are pregnant or nursing, you should be careful about fish - especially the big predators - because of mercury levels. If you are a young child, ditto.

Second, there are concerns about mercury in fish even for adults who are not pregnant. I poked around a little, but got contradictory information (of course). Here's a brief writeup from the American Heart Association. And here's one from the US Government that has specific recommendations for some specific fish for pregnant/nursing women and also has hyperlinks to other Websites like this one.

I wouldn't worry about this too much, but, like one of the writeups says, be sure to eat a variety of fish, rather than all one kind and eat the big predators no more than once a week.

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