NINE people were hospitalised with Ciguatera poisoning after eating fillets from a 25kg Spanish mackerel on Sunday.
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Scotts Head resident Peter Joyce said it was meant to be “just another day on the water”. He took his son Elliot and friend Sal Bartley fishing off Scotts Head to chase the king of mackerel.
After the fish was brought in, it was divided between the two families and shared with family and friends.
Those who ate it were rushed to hospital Sunday night and early yesterday morning.
“I do think it is an issue that the fishing, and broader community, now needs to be aware of,” he said.
"It’s impossible to tell as the fish looked, smelt and I’m guessing, ate, as if there was no problem. “I’m confident the problem was not because of poor food handling as my post-catch handling was fine, bleed straight away and on ice almost immediately in the boat then in the fridge within two hours of being caught.”
On Tuesday, the patients still in hospital “looked pretty crook”.
* Full story in Thursday's Guardian News.
