Those fish are too fishy: Belfast opportunists warned not to eat mackerel scooped off the road
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This fish tale might be a wee bit hard to stomach.
Belfast City Council is advising its citizens: Don't eat fish found lying on the roadside. They're too fishy.
Tuesday's health warning follows the accidental dumping of thousands of mackerel on to the busy Ravenhill Road, apparently by a delivery truck with a loose back door. Locals grabbed bags to haul in their catch before passing cars could turn the stranded school to pulp.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Tommy Bardsley says he bagged 25 mackerel and deemed them off-the-boat fresh. "I know fish," the 61-year-old declared.
The council says Bardsley and other opportunists don't know microbiology, because they don't know where the fish came from, and they could be contaminated by automotive pollutants.