I feel sorry for the parrot fishes! Yes this fish can be eaten, but for us divers this is a big No No!!! There are important reasons why we should not eat them and we should educate the fishermen to stop catching these beautiful fish! Please do spare them … the ocean needs them to regenerate. Read below to be educated. They’re lots of fish you can catch in the sea. They can sell and cook the other fish, but leave the parrot fish!
Here is why: (c&p from the web)
Parrotfish eat algae and dead coral*. They spend up to 90% of their day nibbling. In other words, they clean the reef. This is important because most of the reefs across the tropics are being smothered by algae because there are not enough parrotfish and other herbivores out there grazing.
After all that eating, get this: They poop fine white sand – lots of it! Each parrotfish produces up to 320 kilograms (700 pounds) of sand each year.
Their numbers are so depleted, and algae levels are so high, that they cannot be fished sustainably right now anywhere in the Caribbean. These flamboyant, algae-eating, sand-pooping fish need to be left in the water. And when they are left to chomp away, they do a brilliant job. A massive new report concludes that reefs where parrotfish were abundant in the 1980s are the reefs that are healthy now.
There is a reason for their existence so please let’s not eat them … To our Govt. Please educate our fishermen… Say no to catching parrot fish! Let’s not buy parrot fish so they won’t catch them anymore.
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Thank you for enlightening us on the importance of the Parrot fish.
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A friend of mine sent this story and I need to practice using the new text editor provided by WordPress, hence this post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrotfish
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It’s dead ! You’ve nailed it to the reef !
It’s not dead, it’s sleeping.
Fishing is 50% of my reasons for not retiring.
Golf is 50% of my reasons for not retiring, and
Having no cash is my other 50% for not retiring.
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If you fish or play golf then you will be bored out of your brain. Keep working. 🙂
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Message received and understood. I’d never try to catch one, no where near them either.
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I’m only a few hundred metres from the sea but I don’t fish and can’t say if I’ve ever eaten one. In my town they actually tell you what fish they are serving you. Parrotfish is never one of them.
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Do they talk or squark.
Can’t say I’ve partaken in one, well that I can remember.
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Same here.
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Hear, hear! 😀
Those are DEAD parrot fish! They are extinct, defunct, deceased! They are EX-parrot fish… (With apologies to Monty Python!) 😉
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You mean, they’ve fuckin’ snuffed it?
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That’s it! I’m never eating a parrot fish…mind you, I’ve never eaten one in the past.
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Can’t say that I have either Sister. 🙂
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