This fish advisory provides safe eating advice for three dozen species of fish across hundreds of miles of the California coast from the Oregon border to Mexico.
Press Releases
State fish advisory offers safe eating advice for carp, Channel Catfish, and Tilapia from the Alamo River and the New River in Imperial County.
The interim advice is based on a preliminary review of data that indicates catfish in the lake contain an elevated level of PCBs.
Public input key for update to the first-in-the-nation statewide environmental health screening tool
Network of low-cost sensors will study cross-border air pollution impacts.
Safe eating advice for five species of fish from Elkhorn Slough in Monterey County.
News Release
C-43-96
Released: December 13, 1996
Contact: Dan Pellissier, Communications Director
(916) 324-9670
The recommendations developed by OEHHA for each fish species are based on the levels of mercury measured in fish from the French Meadows and Hell Hole Reservoirs in Placer County.
Higher temperatures send more Californians to the hospital for serious ailments, with each 10-degree rise linked to an increase of more than 400 percent in hospital admissions for heat stroke, according to a 2010 state study.
Press Release - Information and safe eating advice for fish caught in Lexington Reservoir, located near Los Gatos.