Sport fish

Wisconsin Human cancer criteria Public water supply Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Great Lake communities Nonwater supply Warm water sport fish communities 5 pg/L 5 pg/L 5 pg/L 360 pg/L DNR 1987 DNR 1987... 

Mercuiy concentrations in prey fish are useful indicators of relative MeHg levels in food webs snpporting the prodnction of sport fish and wildlife, information relevant to the pnblic and the policy community. There is a sizable scientific literature on MeHg in prey fish, bnt they have been monitored less extensively than sport fish. Effects of removal sampling on target populations would be insignificant in all but the very smallest lakes. 

Commercial and sport fishing The management goal in relation to this use is the maintenance and/or restoration of the diversity of the communities of importance to fishery, such as fish-food organisms and site-specific fish populations including the conditions for their natural reproduction. 

Public water supply, Wisconsin Warmwater sport fish communities Coldwater communities Great Lakes communities Saltwater (pg/L)... 

Stafford, C.P. and T.A. Haines. 1997. Mercury concentrations in Maine sport fishes. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 126 144-152. 

Eisler, R. 1967. Tissue Changes in Puffers Exposed to Methoxychlor and Methyl Parathion. U.S. Bur. Sport Fish. Wildl., Tech. Paper 17. 15 pp. 

Eisler, R. 1969. Acute toxicities of insecticides to marine decapod crustaceans. Crustaceana 16 302-310. Eisler, R. 1970a. Latent effects of insecticide intoxication to marine molluscs. Hydrobiologia 36 345-352. Eisler, R. 1970b. Factors Affecting Pesticide-Induced Toxicity in an Estuarine Fish. U.S. Bur. Sport Fish. Wildl., Tech. Paper 45. 20 pp. 

Sonzogni, W., L. Maack, T. Gibson, D. Degenhardt, H. Anderson, and B. Fiore. 1991. Polychlorinated biphenyl congeners in blood of Wisconsin sport fish consumers. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 20 56-60. 

Wl Human cancer criteria Public Water Supplier Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Great Lakes communities Non-Public Water Supplies Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Warm water forage and limited fish communities and limited aquatic life Groundwater Enforcement standard Prevention action limit 1.9 mg/L 1.8 mg/L 1.8 mg/L 87 mg/L 31 mg/L 380 mg/L 6p g/L ... 

Warm water sport fish communities Gold water communities Great Lakes communities Non-Water Supply ... 

Warm water sport fish communities Cold water communities Warm water forage and limited forage fish communities and limited aquatic life... 

In the fall of 1993, the serum levels of BB-167 (2,2, 4,4, 5,5 -hexaBB) in 32 subjects, approximately 10 of whom consumed sport fish from the Great Lakes, were measured (Anderson et al. 1998). When the data were stratified by lake, on average, the Lake Huron fish consumers had the highest levels of PBBs (0.6 ppb) and Lake Erie fish consumers had the lowest (0.2 ppb). When the data were then stratified by state of residence, on average. Great Lake sport fish consumers who live in Michigan had the highest PBB level (0.7 ppb) and residents ofWisconsin had the lowest level (0.05 ppb). 

Much of our current understanding of these impacts arose from research on wildlife and human populations within the Great Lakes basin. Despite being banned in North America more than 25 years ago, the toxicological risks from PCB exposure are still a present-day concern. For example, current PCB concentrations in fish in the Great Lakes are sufficiently large as to drive the need for fish consumption advisories for sport fish and to restrict commercial fisheries. 

The continued elevated concentrations of PCBs in sport fish in the Great Lakes necessitates that fish consumption advisories be issued by all of the US Great Lakes states and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Unlimited consumption is not advised until fish tissue concentrations decline below 0.05 igg 1 (ww), a level not expected to be reached for many decades (see Sect. 8). Thus PCBs will be of significant concern well into the future. 

Anderson HA, Amrhein JF, Shubat P, Hesse J (1993) Protocol for a uniform Great Lakes fish advisory. Great Lakes Sport Fish Advisory Task Force... 

A profile of organo chlorine contaminants in serum of Great Lakes sports fish consumers, 1993, was determined in order to identify the contaminants which should be investigated further in a population-based study [17]. Participants were chosen based on consumption of sport fish from Lake Michigan (n = 10), Lake Huron (n = 11), and Lake Erie (n = 11) at least once per week. Median age was 48-56 years, and the sample was roughly half women, half men. 

Table 11 Concentrations (ngkg-1 lipid weight) of PCDD/Fs in human serum from sport fish consumers in the Great Lakes compared to a control group in Jacksonville, Arkansas. Adapted from Anderson et al. [17] ...

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