Tribal Environmental Directors
Safe eating guidelines for American shad, Chinook (King) salmon, steelhead trout, striped bass, and white sturgeon.
The Cal/EPA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) released a health advisory and safe eating guidelines for some of California?s most popular sport fish species. The new guidelines include recommendations for safe consumption of five species of fish that are born in fresh water, spend much of their lives in the ocean, and return to fresh water to spawn. The advisory covers the five fish species regardless of whether they are caught in the ocean, bays, the Delta, rivers or streams however, it does not apply to landlocked fish that never leave lakes or reservoirs.
The new advisory can be accessed at
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/special_re ... 21512.html
For questions regarding this email, please contact OEHHA staff, Dr.
Margy Gassel at
margy.gassel@oehha.ca.gov or (510) 622-3166.
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