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General health advice for eating fish caught from the Mississippi does exist.


Jaqueline Davis fishes in the Wolf River Harbor underneath the A.W. Willis Bridge July 7, 2022. Davis has been coming to this spot for over a decade. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

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