State Of Ohio EPA Posts 2006 Fish Advisory Updates
A statewide advisory recommending a limit of one Ohio-caught sports fish meal per week continues for all Ohio water bodies due to mercury deposition in waterways, except in areas where there is a more restrictive advisory. The results of the latest advisories come from Ohio EPA's 2004 fish tissue sampling and evaluation.
A record number of samples were taken in 2004 after sampling was cut short in 2003 due to inclement weather.
This year, Ohio EPA has added 12 locations to the list of places where fish should be eaten no more frequently than once a month due to mercury. They include:
Dow Lake (Athens County) - largemouth bass; Four Mile Creek (Butler County) - smallmouth bass 17 inches and over; Grand River (Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake and Trumbull counties) - rock bass; Hocking River (Hocking and Athens counties) - walleye and spotted bass 13 inches and over; Killdeer Pond #30 (Wyandot County) - largemouth bass; Ross Lake (Ross County) - channel catfish 20 inches and over; Schoonover Lake (Allen County) - largemouth bass; Scioto River (Delaware, Hardin and Marion counties) - white crappie 11 inches and over; Sevenmile Creek (Butler County) - rock bass; St. Joseph Lake (Perry County) - largemouth bass; Stillwater River (Darke, Miami and Montgomery counties) - rock bass 8 inches and over and largemouth bass 13 inches and over; and Tuscarawas River (Coshocton, Stark, Summit and Tuscarawas counties) - northern pike 25 inches and over, and freshwater drum. Twin Creek (Montgomery, Preble, Warren counties) - smallmouth bass 13 inches and over.
There are four new locations where fish should be eaten no more than once a month due to elevated PCB levels. They include:
Grand River (Ashtabula and Lake counties) - rainbow trout
Hocking River (Athens County) - freshwater drum
Ohio River (All Ohio waters) - sauger and smallmouth buffalo
Tuscarawas River (Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties) - freshwater drum and walleye.
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