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Originally Posted by Braun
FH7, twice I have caught and kept a legal size brown from the bow. (Only a couple cm from the limit). the mercury content is fine. ALL FRESHWATER FISH HAVE SOME MERCURY IN THEM. humans can tolerate low doses of mercury. check the regs page for the *suggested weekly fish consumption limits. content is higher in the bow yes, but not lethal by any means. also if you read carefully, the concern about mercury levels in the bow is BELOW the Bassano dam. far far far downstream from calgary and even farther from ghost. This will be from fertilizers and chit like that from the farm land. Additionally, the concern is towards pike and walleye. not trout. People are miffed about eating fish below the city because of the million+ people living there. city has a very good water treatment facility. the water quality is actually extremely good. the fish in the waters around the city are fine and tasty. no different the eating the muddy stocked trout who are raise on a food similar to dog food
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i havent kept any from the bow but i have herd some pretty scary stories on it.
i know all fish fish have mercruy on it but the stuff built on to the polution on the bow worries me and im sure that the smaller ones have less murcury then the bigger ones from the food chain.
PS: some homeless guy told me when i was fishing they dug out holes beside the bwo to put there atr or whatever some solotion to dip there logs in there for the railway. they filled it with dirt now its leaking into the bow. go talk to the city theyyd love to tell you some of there secrets