Eat fish will die ah? Eat this one and you might

Blood still boil­ing from the dis­cov­ery of yesterday’s Razor TV cov­er­age of the same restau­rant buy­ing and serv­ing giant grouper that CNA talked about last month, Naomi did a lit­tle research and found that not only is this big fish a vul­ner­a­ble species, it is also likely to be poi­so­nous as its flesh con­tains a neu­ro­toxin that can­not be destroyed by heat of cooking.

The largest bony fish found in coral reefs (Ref. 9710). Com­mon in shal­low waters. Found in caves or wrecks; also in estu­ar­ies. Indi­vid­u­als more than a meter long have been caught from shore and in har­bors. Juve­niles secre­tive in reefs and rarely seen (Ref. 48635). Ben­thopelagic and ben­thic (Ref. 58302). Feed on spiny lob­sters, fishes, includ­ing small sharks and batoids, and juve­nile sea tur­tles and crus­taceans. In South African estu­ar­ies, the main prey item is the mud crab, Scylla ser­rata. Uncon­firmed reports of fatal attacks on humans. Nearly wiped out in heav­ily fished areas (Ref. 9710). In the Hong Kong live fish mar­kets (Ref. 27253). Large indi­vid­u­als may be cigua­toxic (Ref. 37816).

Judg­ing by how unin­tel­li­gi­ble this com­menter on the green­drinks blog sounds, some peo­ple might have already been poisoned.