Nsw Pippis Not For Human Consumption

[Gad]

Taken from NSW DPI NEWCAST email 7-11-17

Recreational fishers are reminded that pipis must not be collected, by any method and for any purpose, other than for use as fishing bait, right along the NSW coastline. Pipis collected for use as bait must not be removed from an area within 50 metres of the mean high water mark.
 
This closure is in place because pipis may contain toxins due to natural algal blooms, which may not always be visible. Algal blooms can occur anywhere along the coast and are normally the result of the upwelling of nutrient rich deep ocean water onto the continental shelf, and can often be seen after rainfall events in estuaries and in river mouths.
 
Some of these algae produce harmful toxins that can build up in marine shellfish and the toxins are capable of making people very ill. Please note that cooking does not destroy the toxins.
 
As part of a routine market survey of wild harvest shellfish undertaken by NSW Food Authority staff, samples from Stockton Beach (harvested 26 and 27 September) collected from the Sydney Fish Markets exceeded the regulatory limit (0.2 mg/kg) for diarrhetic shellfish toxins caused by Dinophysis spp.
 
The Stockton Beach harvest area was closed as a result and stock harvested at that location was removed from sale.

[Drop Bear]

On 11/8/2017 at 5:17 PM, Gad said:

This closure is in place because pipis may contain toxins due to natural algal blooms, which may not always be visible. Algal blooms can occur anywhere along the coast and are normally the result of the upwelling of nutrient rich deep ocean water onto the continental shelf, and can often be seen after rainfall events in estuaries and in river mouths.

I love to eat shellfish but have never mastered the art of getting all the sand out.

A mate has had great success with having them sit in sea water with air stone for 36 hours. I will be putting a big live bait tank in the new tinnie and wonder if that would be the very thing to let them sit for a few days. 

[Gad]

know an old guy who has always put his crabs in fresh water  before he processes them, he says they clean their inner selves out doing this, don`t know if this is a fact or not.

[Old Scaley]

Personally, I would love to be eating enough crab to be worried.

[Drop Bear]

On 11/15/2017 at 10:14 PM, Gad said:

know an old guy who has always put his crabs in fresh water  before he processes them, he says they clean their inner selves out doing this, don`t know if this is a fact or not.

Sounds painful for the crabs. 

[Drop Bear]

On 11/16/2017 at 6:07 AM, Old Scaley said:

Personally, I would love to be eating enough crab to be worried.

There are plenty out there

[Gad]

1 hour ago, Drop Bear said:

Sounds painful for the crabs. 

I imagine flea powder would be too, but I was once told it works