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For the concerned fish eater: a guide to what's safe, what's healthy, and what's sustainable
The dilemma of the concerned fish consumer grows more acute each day, it seems. Should you put your own health, enhanced by the goodness of oily fish rich in omega-3, before the wellbeing of the world's dwindling fish stocks?
Sales of fish oil supplements have soared, propelled by reports suggesting it can increase longevity and even improve children's behaviour. Yet environmentalists warn that stocks of many fish are over-exploited, and we should stop eating them. They say toxins such as cancer-causing dioxins and PCBs have built up in the fatty tissue of fish thanks to decades of industrial pollution of the seas.
