Damien Enright: Should you forgo fugu?

Pufferfish species are present off Irish coasts. As long ago as 2002, an article in Matt Murphy’s informative quarterly, Sherkin Comment, reported that a blunthead pufferfish had been caught off Donegal in 1984, the most northerly record at that time.

Fugu fish caught off Gomera. They puff themselves up by sucking in water and/or air.

Maybe, like emperor of Japan, you should forgo fugu

Fugu, the extremely toxic pufferfish considered a number one delicacy in Japan, have been filmed biting floating beer cans in half with a single snap of their four large teeth, set in powerful jaws and normally used for crushing the shells of crustaceans and molluscs, their natural prey.