Tilefish (Gulf of Mexico), wild

FDA/EPA Choice to avoid (listed as “Tilefish (Gulf of Mexico)”) in the FDA/EPA Advice about Eating Fish (revised October 2021). How much and how often is their advice, not ours.

Composition per 100 g as eaten — cooked, or canned and drained. Mercury is FDA’s species mean, as FDA publishes it; for species FDA does not cover, the sample-weighted mean of the surveys listed. Dioxins + PCBs are survey means (or a median, where noted) per gram of fish as sold, in each survey’s own TEQ scheme. FDA/EPA split tilefish by ocean (Atlantic = Good choices, Gulf of Mexico = Choices to avoid). USDA's tilefish row names no ocean, so composition cells stay empty here. Tagged wild: this species is caught, not farmed, for the US market, and NOAA Fisheries describes the US catch as wild-caught.