Risks Associated With Too Much Vitamin E. Except for an anticoagulant effect, vitamin E has no known toxicity or side effects. There was a meta-analysis conducted by John Hopkins in 2004 that raised some concern about higher daily intakes, but this was most likely associated with pre-existing health conditions.
BUT-those four pike averaged 7 pounds each. That's 28 pounds of northern pike in a 3-acre pond, or nearly 10 pounds/acre of water. Compared to waters across North America, that is a high biomass (poundage) of northern pike. But, think about that. Four fish lived in an area bigger than three football fields.
The declines in California have been even steeper. Just 11,500 acres of California farmland were planted with asparagus in 2014 -- down from a high of 40,900 acres in 2000. Most of those acres are located in the vicinity of Stockton, California, east of San Francisco at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers.