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Get to know the Advisory Eat Safe for Store-bought or Restaurant 1 Choose 2 Clean Going to the store or out to eat? Going ? Cleaning and cooking your fish the Fish Fish are grouped and assigned points based on the amount Use the picture below to choose fish to catch that are right way can remove up to half of the of mercury in 6 ounces of fish (one meal). Fish with more in the mercury get more points. generally safer for you and your family to eat. Be sure to chemicals! The lower the score, the better the fish check the Michigan Fish Advisory to find details about the is for you to eat. Eat no more than 8 lakes and rivers where you’re fishing. ;; Trim off the dark fatty tissue along the EAT points points of fish meals per month... These fish are lower in chemicals, backbone, sides and belly. Most of the Saginaw Bay per and are better to eat. chemicals are stored in the fat, except for no more month than... * mercury. Mercury cannot be removed from 8 (farm-raised) (canned, frozen, fresh) Area Meal fish. er P (includes the Saginaw Bay and the Crawfish Yellow ;; Take out all organs, such as the and (, ) Tittabawassee & Saginaw Rivers) stomach. Do not eat the organs.

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