So sad. I have always assumed the sushi grade sushi had less mercury. Wishful thinking. I still love it.

There are 3 kinds of lies. Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. I have data on Mercury in Salmon (which correlates with the same situation in Tuna) which puts the danger of Mercury consumed in "PERSPECTIVE". It is from the Nutrition Action Healthletter (which "is the largest-circulation health newsletter in North America, providing reliable information on nutrition and health.") This was an excerpt from an article on eating FARMED Salmon which has the HIGHEST levels of Mercury). It shows the risks versus BENEFITS, and the latter outweigh the former! It is from the Pew Oceans Commission, which released a host of recommendations in 2003 to guide the way in which the federal government will successfully manage America’s marine environment. It was aimed at sowing dangers of farmed fish and contaminants but nicely demonstrates the statistics of risk versus reward with eating Salmon (or Tuna) which are such beneficial fish from the Omega-3 standpoint.

RISK OF EATING SALMON FROM MERCURY VS CARDIAC DEATHS

Here’s what the Pew study boils down to: if you eat a six-ounce serving of cooked farmed salmon from Washington state or Chile once a month for your entire life, your risk of getting cancer rises by roughly one in 100,000. Another way to look at it: 33,000 of every 100,000 Americans who live to age 80 will be diagnosed with cancer. If all 100,000 ate farmed salmon from Washington state or Chile (where the contaminants are the highest) once a month, the number of cancer cases would climb by just one, to 33,001.

If they ate the farmed salmon once a week, the number of cases would rise to 33,004 (or to 33,008 if the salmon was farmed in Canada). Compare that relatively small number of additional cancers with the impact of salmon on sudden cardiac death. While there are no exact numbers available, a conservative estimate is that roughly 5,000 out of every 100,000 Americans die of cardiac arrest. If all 100,000 ate salmon (farmed or wild) once a week, researchers estimate that the number of deaths would drop to 3,500. That’s 30 percent fewer lives lost [ or 1,500 lives SAVED]. “Of all the nutrients in our diet, nothing has a greater impact on preventing death from sudden heart attacks than the omega-3 fatty acids in seafood like salmon, [or Tuna]” says William Harris of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. “That’s why the American Heart Association recommends that adults eat fish, particularly fatty fish, at least two times a week.” Clearly, the benefit to the heart from making one of those servings salmon outweighs the increased cancer risk.