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THE POST-CRESCENT APPLETON, WIS. (i) 40,000 (S) 4 rcuffco ri JUN 1 4 1975 IbaconsJ Fish contaminated with PCB MADISON, Wit. <AP) - The Depart ment of Natural Resources Friday sug gested limiting consumption of large nth taken from Lake Michigan and por tions of the upper Mississippi and Fox rivers because of large quantities of the Industrial chemical PTp --. The DNR, on advice from the Division of Health, said consumption of trout and salmon over 24 inches from Lake Mich igan be limited. The warning also ap plied to fish from the Mississippi be tween Prescott and lower Lake Pepin and the Fox River Irom Portage north to the Marquette County line. - The U.S. Food and Drug Adminis tration has set a public health action level of five parts per million of PCB in interstate commerce. The DNR, which said some larger fish from the specified waters contain more PCB than that, recommended that sports fishermen be warned from eating more then one meal a week of such fish and that children and pregnant women limit their Intake to one average size serving of such fish per week.il MONS 031169