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New threat to Lake Michigan fish NBtYX'DHAIHVUIDMWM)EnfUTZK An indusiriul pollutant. polychJori- naiad biphenyls. hat contemtnatad whitofioh in Lake Michigan at levels ex- caaBlng the Mine standards as carp in Uka Npin in western Wisconsin. whet* United stales Food and Dmg Admtnit- trnUan officials Dried recently that no v carp dan he sold any longer in interstate OMnmerte for human consumption. ' Lake traui and large aalmon in Lake Michigan else art expected to be contasMnaisdbeyond laden) limits lor sale Mpawnption, according 10 state Depart- MM of Natiirai Resources officials. the polychlorinated biphenyls (KBs) are now weed in transformers mi capacitors. Only one American tjem. Meneaoin, make* the fluids elnguth some foreign produel it sold, sold stonily Kleinert, Madison, chief of eurveillance for the DNR. Pan todustria! woes of KBs hove baaa In making carbonless copy paper. nllc fluids, insulation and heat exchange fluids in the electric ' dustry and in the plastics Industry. Kletnen Mid tests of 20 whitefith sampled in April showed that some ex ceed i parts par million KBs. Carp, commercially fished in Green Bay. are now being tested. Kleinert said results are not complete but that Minton and lake trout are ex pected to be affected. "From the work that's barn done by the Fleh and Wild life Service of the State of Michigan it's lust expected thatthe larger trout and g"M"!!> "coed the S porn per miltion level.1 The larger, fatter fish are more likely to be effected, he Mid. The KBs are a chlorinated hydrocarbon and. Ilka DDT, buiM up in the fatty tissue of fish end "Your big, old fish that have lota of fat art going ta have PCBa, ' Kleinert said. Kleinert is preparing a pedal report to bo presented Msy 3l and 22 to the Mate Board of Natural Resources, n will dool with the extent of contamination commercial fishing, said 3 million pounds of carp were taken fast year In a latter to R.E. Hogue, a Papin fish from Green Bay. The fish said (or about broker, Henry P. Roberts. Minneapolis, 4 cmis per pound- Some 37 million deputy regional Food and Drug dirtc- pounds of olewife. setting tt less than 2 <orp taken from the lake eon- conu per pound, were taken from Lake Mined more than i pom per million MKhtgan. KBs. He warned Hogue, who ships fish Bet the most commercially valuable to New York markets, against internals (MB in the lake, in H74, were the white- sale of the fish. . fish and chub. Fishermen netted on* "Any fish shipped in interstate com mUltenpounds el whMeltsh with a value merce containing over the 9 pans per of I73B.M0 and about l.t million pounds million tolerance are consider* to twin of chubs with a valve ef 1700.000. Some notation of the Food. Drug and Coemp ' 700.100 pounds of yellow perch were tic Act and can be seised under the taw taken with a velue of S39MM. Alan, the shipper of such fish could be Poff Mid that besides KB contamina liaWe to injunction or prosecution as tion soma Lake Michigan fish are being prescribed by law." contaminated by reHeuts ef DMidraa, a Hogue rammed one shipment of carp pesticide. from the hue that already had reached The KB comamtnetwn. if i suf New York after being told that the ttsti ficient levels, could seriously allect the could not be legally sotd because of eon- commercial fishing In Lako Michigan tendnation. and might luiva an impact on sport flag- A similar carp fishery exists in Green tng, according to Port. Bay. "There are overtones. here, tbeaa Ron Poff. Madison, DNR supervisor of Fish . Continued Ftem Page l H>mgs couM serweary offset the future of than takas la providing a apart Itab- Krt said Miami up to twe yean aid garde bin Dm during their Mm yuur gatn weight rapidly feeding heevHy ea aWwile. The gain of the lisb results Wt a gam In KBs. A Joint study commitiaoof iodivtduMi from the suit agriculture dev--........ department ef neailh and DNg ar% checking the aHuatMn to identify the problem, according taKleinert. Robert Mars. Mtnnaapotis. Pednrai Feed and Drug AdeiHustraiwn com phones officer, said each at (hr Mur states bordering Luka Mtebigan must - be involved in act wn because of KBs. Ha said commarctai shippers in inter state commerce could not legally ship Uah known to bo contaminated with mors than 9 parts per million KBs Passible federal action, according to Fermer Adairs. Minneapolis, centpliance branch chief, Is sampling the fish and If centaminaisd will consider federal court action to cause the ship ment to be seised, an InJunctWn tu en join the fish broker from interstate com merce. or prosecution. No decision has been made concern ingGreen Buy by the agency. "As ol today wa da not have any data available to ua an Qrsen Bay that would omit of M mnktoey communi." said Mars. rv--* HONS 0711*8