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.