Fish

Fish advisory for San Pablo Reservoir.

OEHHA releases information to fish consumers to help them choose the safest fish to eat from Lake Natoma in Sacramento County and Folsom Lake in Sacramento, Placer and El Dorado counties. The guidelines recommend how often these fish can be eaten to maximize their health benefits while minimizing the health risks from mercury contamination.

Description of the process of developing Fish Contaminant Goals and Advisory
Tissue Levels for evaluating methylmercury, chlordane, DDTs, dieldrin, PCBs, selenium,
and toxaphene

Draft report and guidelines provide information to fish consumers to help them choose the safest fish to eat from the Sacramento River and Northern Delta.  They also recommend how often these fish can be eaten to maximize their health benefits, while minimizing the health risks from mercury contamination.

Tests of mussels collected from Berkeley Marina and Rodeo Beach show no elevated health risk due to contamination in the area affected by the Cosco Busan oil spill. The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has withdrawn warnings to avoid eating mussels from those two sites and five additional Bay Area locations.