"reef" news and stories

This will hopefully serve as a warning to all of you adventurous eaters out there. Two men were apparently plagued with intense hallucinations and later hospitalized after consuming Salema porgy or Sarpa salpa (right), a highly poisonous reef fish, according to an article in Practical Fishkeeping. The article says the fish was served in restaurants in the western Mediterranean, but does not say exactly where. This 'fish poisoning' or ichthyoallyeinotoxism is generally associated with fish from the Indo Pacific, including certain types of  "mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish." The hallucinations, which are supposedly on par with psychedelics like LSD or DMT, have earned these toxic fish the nickname "dream fish."