Heavy Metal and Pesticide Advisories in Fish Stocks Across Multiple States

[FFairfax]

If this isn't the proper place for this thread, I apologize. Please move it to where you would prefer it to be. That said...

I was browsing Twitter today (I know, I really should have been looking for something far more productive to do) and I came across a tweet from someone linking to this: https://www.doh.wa.gov/DataandStatisticalReports/HealthDataVisualization/fishadvisory

Looking over the site and seeing how many areas had fish consumption advisories, I decided to check on both Florida and Tennessee as well. Florida has advisories in place across a rather large portion of the state, particularly for largemouth bass and marine fish, while Tennessee seems to have one in place for largemouth bass as well.

It got me thinking...if part of your preparedness planning was accounting for taking fish from local lakes, rivers, and streams, have you already looked into what sort of contaminants might be present in your area, and which fish species you are currently advised to avoid? What is the alternative to supplementing your dietary plan with fish, just storing more food in advance, and relying on pigs/cows/chickens/rabbits for meat? It was just something that I hadn't looked into or even considered before, so I thought I would bring it up.

 

[Maverick]

This has been occurring for years, some years are worse than others. Most of these effect about 7 counties in the state and off the Fuca plate in the Pacific, where I fish at not a big concern but we monitor the result all spring summer and fall. It's worse during a quick melt off of the snow that results in flooding near populated/industrial areas, the only up stream from me is the mountains

 

[Mountain trapper]

Everything flows down hill. Another reason I like living in the mountains.