Salton Sea, Alamo River and New River

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by tissuestudy2015

I am an environmental scientist, and I am preparing a fish tissue study for 2015 for a state agency.

Which agency? "a state agency" could be almost anyone.

Originally Posted by tissuestudy2015

It's hard to believe there have been no advisories issued up to this point

Maybe it's hard to believe because it's not true.

Did a search and the DHS has had advisories for those bodies of water since the 80s.

".... Currently sportfishing for these species is open, but there are restrictions/advisories regarding consumption. In 1986, the California Department of Health Services (DHS) issued a health advisory for sportfish because selenium concentrations in fillets of croaker (3.8 ppm wet weight), orangemouth corvina (3.6 ppm), sargo (2.1 ppm) and tilapia (1.7 ppm) exceeded or approach the DHS health advisory level of 2.0 ppm (Rasmussen et al., 1987). The advisory is also included in the health warning notices of the California Sport Fishing regulations (CDFG, 1992c). The adult public is advised, to consume no more than 4 ounces of fish every 2 weeks. Pregnant women and children are warned to avoid any fish from the Salton Sea. Fish from the Salton Sea have con-tinued to exceed the 2.0 ppm health advisory level in subsequent years (Rasmussen, 1988; Rasmussen and Starrett, 1989) demonstrating that significant bioaccumulation is currently occurring...."

That's a excerpt from:

Final Environmental Impact Report

Imperial Irrigation District,
May 1994

http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/EIRAq...ologyFish.html

The Office of Health Hazard Assessment (the guys who put out state advisories) also put out a advisory for the Salton Sea over a decade ago. If your from the OEHHA I'd think you'd already know that., but I'm thinking maybe they are about to upgrade their advisory since it's not all that current.

Speaking of the OEHHA someone told me that they now have put out new general guidelines recommending that people have only one meal a week of most California freshwater fish and some of the larger fish like Large Trout, Bass and Striped Bass should not be consumed by women or children at all.

Know anything about that?

Maybe it's a Fukishima problem (that's a joke)

As to fishing: the only guys I know of that fish the rivers fish them for flatheads, all catch and release, and they know better then to eat them. Some people do eat Tilapia out of the Salton Sea, but I'd pass on them as well.

[Squid Vicious]

.....I'll pass....

[bubblehide]

So lets get this right. Your not studying the fish themselves. Your not looking at any toxicity levels in the fish, right? What your really trying to study is who and how many people are fishing these waters, along with what and how much they are catching, right? Yet your trying to make it sound like your studying the toxicity levels of the fish for advisory standards, right?

Well I've done some research myself, as I recall, I have the legal right to know who you are, who your supervised by, if you have a supervisor? What research agencies, colleges, universities... your associated with, and their respective departments, along with contact person information in each agencies research department. And, who(s) funding the research?

Additionally, Since you've already designed your study, I'd like a copy of your methods section, you can post it here, or PM it to me.

[makobob]

Jeff, you state this is a Fish Tissue study. So what tissue samples do you need and from which species? How big of a tissue sample is needed and from which area of said fish. Where do you need to have samples sent and how? When would you like to start recieving samples?