In short, it's a traditional recipe made
from dogfish.
They found hope in one called MSI - 1436, a compound that comes
from the dogfish shark and was previously tested as an appetite suppressant.
If the breaded fish fillet is made
from dogfish, though, that health advice is inaccurate, says Andrew Smith, Maine's state toxicologist.
Not exact matches
That's because the
dogfish, a type of shark, sits high in the ocean food chain and therefore accumulates mercury
from the smaller fish it eats.
Several studies have found individual
dogfish specimens with mercury concentrations exceeding the FDA action level for mercury in seafood — the level at which the FDA would consider removing the product
from the market.
One of our favorite encounters so far this month has been observing a juvenile elephant seal returning
from the depths of the Monterey Bay with a tasty small shark called a spiny
dogfish.
This is a small
dogfish sculpture made
from tinted vitreous china In the Kohler Factory Pottery in Wisconsin.