DFG regs - no clean fish?

I glanced through the 2006 California DFG regs for fresh and ocean fishing.  Everything had these warnings against eating more than a meal or two a week of fish, etc., and many warnings that children and pregnant women should not eat any or more than one meal per week.  (I guess adult males can eat and who cares if they die.)

So, where do I have to move or fish to get clean fish, crabs, clams, scallops, etc.?  Is it possible to find unrestricted, wholesome fish that can be eaten without restriction in California?  Oregon?  Washington?  Alaska?  Canada?  Antarctica?

Don,

Have you seen this on the DFG website?...http://www.dfg.ca.gov/MRD/fishcon1.html
It has some pretty good advice...
Eat smaller fish, don't eat the guts, be picky on which species you eat, and be picky about where you catch them...

Tomales Bay and San Francisco Bay are probably not the places to catch and eat fish if you're worried about mercury.

I doubt you'll be catching many swordfish or other large pelagics from your kayak.. so pretty much anything in the ocean around here is pretty clean. 

If you're still concerned... you can do what I try and do which is to guess the amount of mercury a fish might have.  Mercury and other toxins are a problem becuase they bioaccumalate.  For example, if a small fish has one unit of mercury and a large fish eats 10 of those small fish, the large fish will have 10 units of mercury.   An even larger fish that eats 10 of the large fish will have 100 units of mercury, etc...  But it isn't that straight forward, you have to consider the lifetime consumption of the fish.  A large fish like a salmon that may eat a lot of small fish but only lives 3-4 yrs will probably have less mercury than a medium sized fish like a rockfish that has lived for 50 yrs.  Given that, I don't hesitate to eat salmon, ocean caught halibut, rockfish, lingcod, surfperch, and striped bass from Lake Mendocino.  Of course, when I catch a rather large specimen, I prefer to take a photo and release that fish (reduces my lifetime mercury consumption and the larger fish are the "breeders" so it's good for the fish population).

Brian 

Thanks, good suggestions, I was feeling a bit frustrated. 

Maybe we should just eat the shiners, anchovies, and smelt we use for bait and release everything big we catch.

i was tempted to eat my shiners on sat!!

As a smelt, I resent that!

you can always eat the planters. I think.

you can always eat the planters

I think I would rather eat the shiners

   actuallly the salmon we eat are technically planters aren't they?

 When I lived in fl no one would eat barracuda but the old timers because of the mercury. What the old timers would do is cut of a piece off and put it on an ant hill and check it the next day. If the ants ate it, it was safe. If they did not, then it was not safe to eat.