Eating Halibut from San Francisco bay

I was reading about DFG guidelines for eating fish cut in the SF bay, and was wondering what the folks out there think about it?
I have a 7 yrs old daughter and it's recommended  for them to not have any/so little amount.
Thoughts?

Dont feed it to your kid. I only eat it twice a month. I'm no marine biologist but the dfg says it's pretty polluted so I go with that.

Calibuts are prone to dioxins which are heavy and found on the bottom.  I wouldn't eat much from SF bay.  I also prefer Pacific halibut and petrale sole over calibut.

Errr...uhhh...I think halibut are migratory and small stripers are safe18-26"...the bay is getting cleaner from much restoration...my kids are whip smart and they will one day be sick of fish if I can help it...not sick from fish...don't eat shiners and tons of leopard shark. Don't eat the belly meat and bleed all fish.  Sturgeon have some metals but Keith Fraser is still livin' and I'm sure he had his share of bay fish...eating fish 1 or 2 times a week won't kill ya'...then again...we'll see...stay tuned...

Please don't feed anything from the bay to your kid.  Geezus it's your kid, use an abundance of caution there.

I used to be one to poo-poo those warnings, then I did my research, read lots of studies, educated myself beyond the headlines.  It was awhile ago so I can't offer you any sources,

BUT I came away with a different outlook. The effects of many pollutants on the developing brain are much more pronounced than on the mature brain, why chance it?

They're migratory fish so they're less of a risk so I would eat them sparingly. But for kids, I would never feed them anything from the Bay.

I have a 7 yrs old daughter and it's recommended  for them to not have any/so little amount.
Thoughts?

Questions like this from adults worries me.  Its recommended that you not feed them any or very little, but you come to an online forum asking for our opinions?  I mean, what if most of us were morons and told you to feed it to your child...would you do it? 

Personally I fed my children food that I foraged in the wild, and considered it a safer choice than farmed, or any kind of processed foods.

If halibut from the bay isn't considered safe, then you shouldn't feed your children anything. As just one of many examples, last year there were 272 cases, 121 people were hospitalized, and 5 people died just by eating romaine lettuce that wasn't fully cooked....yes if you worry, fully cook everything.

I choose not to, and eat raw fish almost daily, even from the bay.

Sunday's halibut:   

I discovered worms while skinning the halibut I caught on Saturday. I don't worry because I normally freeze the fish before I eat it. I no longer eat raw fish that had never been frozen no matter where it was caught. I found worms before in salmon, rockfish, hali, mackerel, trout, stripers. There's no reason to think it is safe to eat raw fish that hasn't been treated. I don't worry too much about eating fish from the Bay or Delta because I don't catch that many fish to begin with

    I'm playing the geezer card here, I know, but as a resident of the Greater SF Bay or tributaries from the early '40's off and on and now off, I wouldn't eat any fish caught there.   And I say this as one who used the municipal dumps that used to line the Bay (Just a wire mesh fence to contain the biggest stuff from floating too far.) until my late middle age, and whose family members and neighbors were employed at some of the many naval bases and industrial and manufacturing plants ringing the Bay during that time, as well as the many (maybe not quite as many now) petroleum refineries along San Pablo and Suisun Bays.   And knowing that, for generations, and probably continuing, the entire Central Valley has drained AG chemicals, meth lab waste, and  God knows what into the Bay's tributaries.   The Bay is cleaner than it was, thanks to a lot of effort, but it's still pretty polluted.  Maybe when I'm a few hundred years older I'll reconsider.

- as far as calibut having worms in stomach meat and fin areas - I caught a really healthy one last week at 34" and 18.5 # and for the first time found worms alive as I cleaned it -none in the fillet sections but maybe 40 in the scrape type areas... ...most were in weird stuff that got  tossed into garden use bucket..some choice chunks of body meat they fell off ...never found them in my halibut down here...

as far as feeding kids meat from the bay --as said--lots of stuff kills kids...catching and eating fish might not be top of the worry list...I know kids raised from bottle to walking on chicken nuggets alone 

I have a 7 yrs old daughter and it's recommended  for them to not have any/so little amount.
Thoughts?

Questions like this from adults worries me.  Its recommended that you not feed them any or very little, but you come to an online forum asking for our opinions?  I mean, what if most of us were morons and told you to feed it to your child...would you do it?

Correction,  we are morons.  We may have traveled different paths to reach our own level of moron but don't fool yourself in believing aren't.   

In regards to calibuts being migratory, does this mean any 'but caught in say tomales or monterey is likely to have spent time in sf bay, or are these distinct  seperate populations?

Personally I fed my children food that I foraged in the wild, and considered it a safer choice than farmed, or any kind of processed foods.

If halibut from the bay isn't considered safe, then you shouldn't feed your children anything. As just one of many examples, last year there were 272 cases, 121 people were hospitalized, and 5 people died just by eating romaine lettuce that wasn't fully cooked....yes if you worry, fully cook everything.

I choose not to, and eat raw fish almost daily, even from the bay.

Sunday's halibut:   

Again, this is where things tangent into another subject.  This was never about food poisoning or cooked/uncooked meats or veggies. 

I think its up to everyone's discretion on what they feed themselves and their kids in the household.  Surely its not recommended for young kids and your kids' or their kids may end up a bit off, but nonetheless, its your choice if you believe fish caught inside the bay is the best table fare for your children. 

Correction,  we are morons.

It’s cause we’ve eaten fish from the bay.