Are oscarfish good eatin'? Apparently fishing hobbyist groups

I wouldn't eat any freshwater fish caught out of a Florida canal, which is a nicer way of saying drainage ditch with water in it. Unless you like your fish to taste like mud and trash of course.

>>2204493
In Florida Canals most are high in Mercury, but they do look like they have nice white meat.

freshwater fish don't usually taste very good in general, and yeah, given the fact they're in gross florida water i would probably pass.

>>2204526
>>2204504
Can confirm, I live in Miami. I haven't seen many oscars, but I've seen
Pike Livebearers
Common Carp
Grass Carp
Walking Catfish
Plecos
Jewel Cichlids
Mayan Cichlids
Midas Cichlids
Spotted Tilapia
Blue Tilapia
Mozambique Tilapia
Peacock Bass
Oscar
unkown Cichlids, look like severums
Convict Cichlid
That's all I can think of that I've seen non native in the canals, I might remember a few more though.

>>2204550
I noticed there aren't many smaller species of listed. Do you not bother going after those fish or are the smaller natives too tenacious to be pushed out by exotics?

>>2204562
Eh, there's not many small fish that get too big for most people's tank. Their all big species that got too big for their tanks and people set them free. I have heard about guppies, swordtails, and platies out their, but I haven't seen them. In Miami, we don't get shiners barely at all, and the only time I really ever saw a shiner was in the Everglades. Instead we get killies and livebearers.
Flagfish
Sheepshead minnow
Bluefin Killies
Rainwater Killies
Golden Topminnow
Least Killiefish
Mosquitofish
Mangrove Gambusia
Sailfin molly
A shit ton of other killies in the brackish water
I once saw a goby in freshwater, and mistaken it for a baby snakehead(mostly by it's mouth)

In canals, most likely you'll only find mosquitofish.

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>>2204493
Just eat em. The top level predators are the ones you want to watch out for, and that is only if you eat a lot of it.

Also look out for the Mayans. They took over for the Oscars in a lot of places since they tolerate the cold winters we get once every decade a little better.

>>2204550
Jesus.
Is it "I think its dead so let's flush it" or "well its too big/gotta move/don't like it don't want to kill it" mentality?
I had a drain canal behind my parents place in Texas, I swore those were Malawi cichlids in it but that sounded crazy when I said it out loud.

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>>2205091
A lot of it is people releasing them from their aquariums because they got too big or whatever reason. Other species, like the snakeheads, got loose during a hurricane and they were being bred for food.

>Those lips