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Fish Consumption Contaminated Seafood Advisories

In the figure above are shellfish bed closures as of the spring of 1998 (note: during the summer additional harbors tend to be closed), mercury and PCB advisories for fish in freshwater ponds, and New Bedford Superfund site seafood consumption restrictions.





Key:

1. Lake Noquochoke (Westport & Dartmouth): PCBs and Mercury advisory
2. Copicut River and Cornell Pond (Dartmouth): PCBs and Mercury advisory
3. Turner Pond (Dartmouth & New Bedford): Mercury advisory
4. Superfund Area I (New Bedford-Fairhaven & Acushnet): PCBs-closed to all fishing
5. Superfund Area II (New Bedford & Fairhaven & Dartmouth): PCBs-closed to Lobsters, eels, flounders, scup, and tautog
6. Superfund Area III (New Bedford & Fairhaven & Dartmouth): PCBs-closed to lobstering
7. Snipatuit and Long Pond (Rochester): Mercury advisory
8. Great Herring Pond (Bourne and Plymouth): Mercury advisory
9. Snake Pond (Sandwich): Mercury advisory
10. Johns Pond (Falmouth & Mashpee): Mercury advisory
11. Mashpee and Wakeby Ponds (Mashpee): Mercury advisory


Related Information:

Massachusetts Department of Public Health Fish Consumption advisory for all MA Freshwater ponds

EPA page about fish consumption advisories

EPA fact sheet: National Listing of Fish and Wildlife Advisories, May 2002 (a pdf file)

EPA fact sheet: National Listing of Fish & Wildlife Advisories (a pdf file)

EPA fact sheet: A Guide to Healthy Eating of the Fish You Catch" Includes fish consumption issues particular to women of childbearing age and children. (a pdf file)

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