WARNING!
Dangerous, poisonous pufferfish Lagocephalus
sceleratus invades the eastern mediterranean sea!
The
fish is called "rabbithead" or "rabbitnose" as well.
It is a delicatesse in
japanese speciality restaurants called FUGU, but parts of it are
extremely dangerous and the poison, which is NOT degradable or
destroyed from cooking can cause severe toxic reactions!
Officials in Greece and also in
Turkey as well like other southeast-mediterranean countries spread
warnings to all fishermen - professionals and private fishers!
There
were a few reports in the last years, that the pufferfish is about to
invade the mediterranean sea and spread through waters around eastern
islands like Cyprus, Crete and the Dodecanese like Rhodes (2003).
The fish is up to 50cm long and can weight 3 pounds (1500 g)
The toxic poison is in
his skin, and NOT
degradable or will NOT be destroyed from cooking - so
avoid fishsoups, unless you are 100% sure, what kind of fish was used
for it!
Since this summer 2009 the greek Port police offices show the poster
indicated left, warning to catch or eat that fish! In case one catches
such a fish, please contact the local nautical officials for
information to the nautical scientific research og Greece!
As we do not have a
photo of that fish ourselves, we cannot show one (copyright), but
please feel free to search yourself below in Google´s search
result pages:
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