No messing with the mackerels.... and no eating the big Mackerels.... (over 10kgs)
My neighbor is a Pro fisherman and he has not sold one since this little bellyache
Nine victims of Ciguatera poisoning from fish caught off Scotts Head
Updated Tue 4 Mar 2014, 11:15am AEDT
A 25 kilo Spanish Mackerel caught off the mid north coast over the weekend sent nine people to hospital with Ciguatera poisoning.
The fish was caught near Scotts Head, south of Macksville mid morning on Sunday.
One of the fishermen Peter Joyce said he and the boy who caught the mackerel cleaned it and divided it up.
He said the fish was shared with family and friends, and those who ate it were then rushed to hospital early yesterday morning.
About six hours after eating the fish they nearly all landed in hospitalPeter Joyce, Scotts Head fisherman
"The people that are in hospital suffered from like tingling all across the body, cold water feeling giving them a hot sensation, vomiting, diarrheal and extreme lethargy. they were as 'weak as kittens' as one of the patients put it"
"About six hours after eating the fish they nearly all landed in hospital."
"Public health have been on the job and in NSW they recommend that you don't consume oceanic pelagic from warm
water."
"So you're talking about Mackerel, Mahi Mahi, Sailfish, Marlin, those kinds of fish that frequent the warm climates."
An irony was the fishermans family had not yet eaten the fish, had given most of it away to "friends" and were planning to eat it the next evening....
