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OEHHA has issued fish consumption advice for a number of water bodies in California where chemical contamination in fish poses a health concern. Links to the advisories OEHHA has developed and issued to date are provided below. These advisories are followed by interim advisories that have also been issued by counties in cooperation with OEHHA. To read the advice for a specific location and find other materials related to that advisory, such as reports and fact sheets, follow the link for the location that interests you.
Advisories issued by OEHHA:
OEHHA's advisories, listed below, are arranged generally from north to south.
- Trinity River Watershed (Trinity County)
- Black Butte Reservoir (Glenn and Tehama Counties)
- Lower Feather River (Butte, Yuba And Sutter Counties)
- Lake Pillsbury (Lake County)
- Clear Lake, Cache Creek, and Bear Creek (Lake, Yolo, and Colusa Counties)
- Putah Creek (Yolo and Solano Counties)
- Lake Sonoma (Sonoma County) and Lake Mendocino (Mendocino County)
- Lake Berryessa (Napa County)
- Lake Herman (Solano County)
- Sacramento River and Northern Delta
- Safety of Consuming Fish and Shellfish from Areas Impacted by the M/V Cosco Busan Oil Spill in San Francisco Bay, California
- San Francisco Bay and Delta Region
- Northern Sierra Nevada Foothills (Nevada, Placer, and Yuba Counties)
- San Joaquin River and South Delta (Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, and Fresno Counties)
- Lake Natoma and the Lower American River (Sacramento Counties)
- Lower Cosumnes and Lower Mokelumne Rivers (Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties)
- Tomales Bay (Marin County)
- Guadalupe Reservoir, Calero Reservoir, Almaden Reservoir, Guadalupe River, Guadalupe Creek, Alamitos Creek, and the associated percolation ponds along the river and creeks (Santa Clara County)
- Grassland Area (Merced County)
- Harbor Park Lake (Los Angeles County)
- Southern California Locations between Point Dume and Dana Point
- Salton Sea (Imperial and Riverside Counties)
Interim advisories issued by counties:
- Bay Area Reservoirs (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, and Santa Clara Counties)
- Lake Nacimiento (San Luis Obispo County)
If you fish at a location that does not have an advisory, you should follow OEHHA's general guidelines contained in the following link: General Health Advisory Brochure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have also issued national advice for women and children in their Joint Federal Advisory for Mercury in Fish. This advice recommends that women who are pregnant or might become pregnant, nursing mothers, and young children consume no more than one meal per week of locally caught fish, when no other advice is available, and eat no other fish that week. OEHHA recommends that women of childbearing age and children aged 17 years and younger follow this advice when no other recommendations are in place. More information on the Joint Federal Advisory for Mercury in Fish can be found at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fishadvice/advice.html
or:
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg.html
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