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SEIS Reference This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS 2008-2009 Health Advisories: Chemicals in Sportfish and Game__________________________1 Purpose and Rationale________________________________________________________________ 1 Health Risks from Contaminants in Fish and Game _________________________________________________1 Procedures for Setting Advisories _______________________________________________________________1 Advice on Contaminants in Fish________________________________________________________ 2 General Advisory for Eating Sportfish ___________________________________________________________2 Specific Advisories __________________________________________________________________________2 Advisories for Women, Infants and Children ______________________________________________________2 Spacing Fish Meals __________________________________________________________________________3 DOH Advisories for Marine Waters _____________________________________________________________3 Cleaning and Cooking Your Fish _______________________________________________________________4 Reducing Exposure to Chemical Contaminants From Fish and Shellfish _________________________________4 Advice on Contaminants in Game ______________________________________________________ 5 Other Fish and Game Advice __________________________________________________________ 5 Lead in Fishing Tackle and Bullets ______________________________________________________________5 Good Sanitary Practices - Bacteria, Viruses and Parasites in Fish and Game______________________________5 Advice on Eating Raw or Partially Cooked Fish, Shellfish and Other Meats ______________________________6 Deformed or Abnormal Fish ___________________________________________________________________6 Botulism in Fish and Waterfowl ________________________________________________________________6 Rabies and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) ______________________________________________________6 2008-2009 Health Advisories _______________________________________________________8 Map of New York Marine Waters __________________________________________________20 Maps of Waters with Specific Fish Consumption Advisories______________________ 21 and 22 Map of New York City Harbor Region ______________________________________________23 Additional Advice _______________________________________________________________24 Information on Chemicals in Sportfish and Game_____________________________________25 PCBs ____________________________________________________________________________________25 Mercury __________________________________________________________________________________25 Chlordane, DDT, Dieldrin and Mirex ___________________________________________________________26 Dioxins and Furans _________________________________________________________________________26 Cadmium _________________________________________________________________________________26 Contacts for Additional Information________________________________________________27 These advisories are also available from the New York State Department of Health web site at: www.nyhealth.gov/environmental/outdoors/fish/fish.htm In an effort to reduce the costs of printing, please notify us if you wish your name to be deleted from our mailing list or if your address has changed. Comments regarding the format or content of this booklet are welcome. Use the telephone number for Environmental Health Information listed on page 27 or e-mail at: [email protected]. Cover design used Rainbow trout by Timothy Knepp, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, from: http://images.fws.gov/ NYS Department of Health 2008-2009 Health Advisories: Chemicals in Sportfish and Game Purpose and Rationale The New York State Department of Health Some contaminants cause cancer in animals. (DOH) issues advisories on eating sportfish and We cannot predict with certainty your risks of game because some of these foods contain cancer from eating contaminated fish or game. chemicals at levels that may be harmful to Cancer currently affects about one in every health. The advisories tell people which fish three people, primarily due to smoking, diet and and game to avoid and how to reduce their hereditary risk factors. Exposure to some exposures to contaminants in the fish and game contaminants in the fish and game you eat may that they do eat. These advisories are for not increase your cancer risk at all. If you follow sportfish and game that people take and are not this advisory over your lifetime, you will for fish and game sold in markets. The health minimize your exposure and reduce whatever advisories are (1) general advice on sportfish cancer risk is associated with these taken from waters in New York State; (2) advice contaminants. on sportfish caught in specific New York State The primary contaminants of concern in New waterbodies; and (3) advice on eating New York State fish are mercury and PCBs. Other York State game. contaminants such as cadmium, chlordane, Fish and game can be nutritious and good to DDT, dieldrin, dioxin and mirex are also eat. Fish are an important source of protein concerns in fish from some of the State’s water and are low in saturated fat. Naturally occurring bodies. The primary contaminants of concern fish oils lower plasma cholesterol and in waterfowl are PCBs, mirex, chlordane and triglycerides and may have other health DDT; and PCBs are the main concern in benefits. snapping turtles. More information about the However, contaminated fish and game can be chemicals that have led to advisories in New the main source of exposure to some York State sportfish and game and potential contaminants. People can get the health health effects can be found on page 25 and 26. benefits of fish and reduce their exposures to unwanted contaminants by following the Procedures for Setting Advisories advisories in this booklet. In New York State, these advisories are primarily based on information that the Health Risks from Contaminants in Fish and Department of Environmental Conservation Game (DEC) gathers on contaminant levels in fish and Long-lasting contaminants, such as PCBs, game. DEC collects fish samples each year DDT and cadmium, build up in your body over from different water bodies. In recent years, time. Health problems that may result from the DEC has annually collected approximately 2000 contaminants found in fish or game range from fish from more than 50 locations/waters and small changes in health that are hard to detect analyzed these fish for various contaminants to birth defects and cancer. Mothers who eat Sampling focuses on water bodies with known highly contaminated fish and game before or suspected contamination, water bodies becoming pregnant may have increased risk of susceptible to mercury contamination, popular having children who are slower to develop and fishing waters and waters where trends in fish learn. This advisory is also intended to protect contamination are being monitored. Also, children from these potential developmental testing focuses on those species that are most problems. Women beyond their childbearing likely to be caught and eaten by sport anglers. years and men face fewer health risks from DEC also tests some game species (e.g., contaminants than children do. People in this waterfowl, snapping turtles) that accumulate last group should follow the advisory to reduce chemical contaminants. other types of health risks. 1 DOH annually reviews the new DEC testing eating a specific kind of fish (see pages 8 to results for fish and game to determine if an 20). In some cases, enough information is advisory should be issued or revised for a given available to issue advisories based on the water body or fish or game species. When length of the fish. Older (larger) fish are often reviewing the data, DOH compares testing data more contaminated than younger (smaller) fish. to federal marketplace standards (when available) for a contaminant and considers Advisories for Women, other factors such as potential human Infants and Children Women, infants and children exposures and health risks; location, type and DOH offers health number of samples, etc. advice for infants, should not eat children under the age any fish from Advice on Contaminants in Fish of 15 and women of listed waters childbearing age. General Advisory for Eating Sportfish DOH recommends that these groups not eat The general health advisory for sportfish is any fish from the specific waterbodies listed in that you eat no more than one meal (one-half the advisory (see pages 8 to 20). pound) per week of fish taken from the state's The reason for this specific advice is that freshwaters and chemicals may have a greater effect on General Advisory - some marine waters developing organs in young children or in the eat no more than at the mouth of the unborn child. They also build up in women's one meal (one- Hudson River. bodies and are often passed on in mother's half pound) per These include the milk. Waters that have specific advisories have week of fish New York waters of at least one species of fish with an elevated taken from the the Hudson River, contaminant level, which means that other fish species may also be affected. state's Upper Bay of New York Harbor (north DEC carried out a large study that increased freshwaters and our knowledge about mercury in fish from New some marine of Verrazano Narrows Bridge), York State waters. The study indicates that in waters at the Arthur Kill, Kill Van the Adirondack and Catskill Mountain regions mouth of the
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