In general, I'm against excessive fish oil consumption (and 87 pills is way too excessive).

I wish I remembered the blog, which discussed a clinical study where doses as small (large really) as 3 grams of fish oil were correlated with higher total mortality and cell mutations than smaller doses like 1.0 gram. I thinks it is important to remember that isolated compounds (especially ones that can easily go rancid like fish oil) are not cure alls or even necessarily as effective as the compound when found in food.

A great post about fish oil vs. fish itself is over at the Perfect Health Diet blog where they say this,

In fact, clinical trials have compared eating fish to eating fish oil capsules. Fish consumption has an excellent record in a number of clinical trials, but fish oil capsule supplements do not.

In the Diet and Angina Randomized Trial (DART-2), 3114 men with stable angina were followed for 3-9 years. There was a control group, a group advised to eat oily fish like salmon, and a group taking 3 fish oil capsules daily. There was a significant increase in sudden cardiac death among the subgroup taking fish oil capsules.

In addition such other paleo-luminaries are relatively anti-fish oil consumption such as Kurt Harris over at paleonu.com.

I know this answer may seem biased, but I am assuming that the OP has read and hear the arguments in favor for Fish Oil by Robb Wolf and the Whole 9 (obviously) and others.

I do not supplement fish oil as I prefer to avoid supplemental "drugs" and instead focus on limited all PUFA consumption and work on ratios within this by eating fatty fish.

I would definitely stop taking the pills and buy the liquid - I like Barlean's Fresh Catch and Carlson's lemon or orange flavored fish oil is nice as well. The EPA/DHA is a LOT higher in the liquid form than it is in the pill form.

http://www.amazon.com/Barleans-Organic-Oils-8-Ounce-Bottle/dp/B002VLZ89Y

http://www.amazon.com/Carlson-Finest-Liquid-Omega-3-Lemon/dp/B001LF39RO/ref=sr_1_1?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1300301294&sr=1-1

It depends on the type of fish oil you're buying. All are definitely not created equal. I only take 4 per day, which is also what the fish oil calculator suggested.

I draw the line when fish oil (or any supplement) becomes its own line item on my budget.

87 is nothing. That calculator had me taking 122/day for like my first six weeks on paleo. . . . .

JUST KIDDING!

That's WAY excessive. Just go hardcore on cutting your O/6 intake right now.