It is found in fish like red snapper, grouper, sea bass, king mackerel and barracuda. Raw shellfish is one of the riskiest foods you can eat. One in 250 people who eat it get food poisoning. Add to this the 30 million people around the world who are infected annually with parasites from eating raw seafood and it is easy to see why seafood is the largest source of food-borne illness. Your chance of getting sick from seafood is 25 times greater than for beef and 16 times greater than for pork or poultry.
Fish are an ideal medium for staphylocci and clostirdium that is picked up during human handling.
Fish may be relatively lower in saturated fat than other meat but like other meat it still contains no fibre or complex carbohydrates. It also is an overly concentrated source of protein. Recent studies have linked excess dietary protein to heart disease, various cancers and other diseases. Any nutritional benefits attributed to eating fish can easily be obtained in a vegetarian diet. Many parts of the ocean floor are being turned into marine deserts as huge, unselective nets drag the bottoms scooping up everything in their paths.