Question: are tuna ok to eat when pregnant?
Answer: Women of childbearing age, pregnant and nursing women, and children may: Eat up to 12 ounces a week of canned light tuna and other low-mercury fish, such as salmon, shrimp, catfish, pollock, and fish sticks. Eat up to 6 ounces of fresh or canned albacore (white) tuna. They have more mercury than light tuna.