No need to panic – AGFC, Arkansas Health Department talk mercury advisory for Walleye in Twin Lakes

“If anyone has any Walleye fillets they don’t want to eat, I’ll take them off your hands,” joked Jason Olive, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commissions Fisheries Chief, at last week's meeting on Bull Shoals and Norfork Lake's mercury advisory.

The Arkansas Department of Health’s fish consumption advisory for Walleye fish in Bull Shoals and Norfork Lake caused such a stir with Baxter County fishermen that officials and scientists from the game and fish commission and health department took it upon themselves to stop in for a hour and a half long question and answer . . .