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r~ DNR Recommends Limiting Trout, Salmon Consumption The Department of Natural program. Pish from Lake would be prudent to limit their Resources (DNR), upon advice of Michigan and Green Bay. the intake to no more than one meal of Ute Wieconsln Division of Health, Upper Mississippi River, the Fox fish per week of those fish taken suggests that people limit their River downstream from Portage from the Mississippi River bet consumption of large trout and and other waters will be monitored ween Minneapolis and Lower Lake salmon from Lake Michigan and for PCB's. This will be Pepin. other fish from the Upper cooperative program with other PCB's were not discovered in the Mississippi River, end the Fox slates, the U. S. Food end Drug environment until 1904 in Sweden River near Portage. Administration, and the U. S. and (he Wisconsin DNR has con Fish In these waters contain Environmental Protection ducted studies of PCB's since 1M. more than the U S. Food and Drug Agency. . A warning was issued in 19TI Administration's acceptable level The DNR will also request concerning limiting consumption of PCB's (Polychlorinated authorization from the Natural of Lake Michigan and Upper BlphenylsL Resources Board to hold hearings Mississippi River fish because of The FDA has set the public to investigate the sale, use end high PCb levels. health action level for market fish distribution of PCB's along with PCB's have been used in coolant* at 5 parts per million (ppm) of the necessity of regulating or insulation fluids In some tran PCB's. Recognising that some banning the discharge of PCB's sforms and capacitors, host larger fish in these waters contain into the environment. transfer agents, machine tool morn than S ppm, the Division of KnowledgeebJe testimony from cutting oils, hydraulic fluids, Health recommends that "sports experts in industry and govern electrical wiring insulation, and fishermen be advised to refrain ment would be solicited. ' epoxy paints. They also occur in from eating more than one meal The problem of PCB's is not swage treatment plant and somo psr weak of such fish and that unique to Wisconsin, but also in pulp and paper mill effluents. They pregnant women end children be volves waters of Minnesota and may enter the air through cautioned to limit their intake to one average site serving of such fish par week." Fish from the following waters teve been found to exceed these Michigan. Several weeks ago the U. S. Food and Drug Ad* ministration ordered SO,000 pounds of car fillets buried after they were found to contain concentrations of vaporization or incineration, or enter the water via fallout or runoff. Like DDT, PCB's are fat soluble with a low solubility In water and levels: Lake Michigan end Green Bay trout and salmon, including lake trout, coho salmon, Chinook as much as 14 parts per million of PCB's. Subsequently, the Min nesota Department of Health advised sports fishermen that it therefore are concentrated in the fat of animals, and particularly Hsh. They also are very stable end tend to persist in the environment salmon, and brown trout, over *4 inches In length. Many fish in the Mississippi River between Prescott and Lower Lake Pepin. Many fish in the Fox River from Portage north to the Columbia County Una. ~ The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture his announced that it will take action and seise any flah offered for commercial sale containing more than S ppm of PRAIRIE DU CHIEH, WIS.. COURIER-PRESS 1. 3.MO PCB's. Like trout over M inches long caught by commercial fishermen in Lake Michigan in* ; JUN 2 51975 $** ddental to their netting operations for other tpecies will no longer be sold for human consumption. The DNR will provide the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture with samples of these fish for testing ed regulatory action. A surveillance program to identify and abate sources of PCD discharge will be continued toy the DNR along with its fish monitoring MONS 031114