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A PUBLICATION FOR MEMBERS OF THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK
Volume 10, Number 8, August 2001, PAGE 2 of 4
| NEW YORK CITY FISH CONSUMPTION ADVISORY |
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was joined by pediatrician and environmental health expert Dr. Philip Landrigan in releasing a brochure
informing New Yorkers about the risks associated with eating fish caught
in New York City waters. The fish, which are contaminated with toxic
chemicals, pose serious health risks for children and women of
childbearing age.
Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine found that people who catch and eat fish from waters around New York City have higher levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in their bodies than people who eat less fish from those waters. In some of the water bodies, the level of contaminants in certain fish species is so high that women of childbearing age, infants and children are advised to abstain totally from eating them. These toxic chemicals can pass from pregnant mothers, or from new mothers who are breast feeding, to their children, and can cause brain damage and developmental disabilities. For some other species, while people may eat the fish, State health advisories recommend limited consumption.
Here follows the official advisory on Fish Consumption for New York City:
Infants, children under fifteen and women of childbearing age regarding fish from:
- Hudson River, East River and Harlem River (including the New York Harbor above the Verrazano Bridge, Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull): Do not eat any fish from these waters.
- New York Harbor below Verrazano Bridge: Do not eat any striped bass from these waters. Also, do not eat more than ½ pound (1 meal) per week (combined) of American eels and bluefish from these waters.
- Jamaica Bay and the Rockaways: Do not eat more than 1 meal per week of striped bass from these waters. Also, do not eat more than ½ pound (1 meal) per week (combined) of American eels and bluefish from these waters.
- Hudson River (including the New York Harbor above the Verrazano Bridge, Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull): Do not eat more than 1 meal per month (combined) of American eels, Atlantic needlefish, bluefish, carp, goldfish, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt, striped bass, walleye, white catfish, and white perch, and do not eat more than 1 meal per week of all other fish from these waters.
- East River and Harlem River: Do not eat any American eels from these waters. Do not eat more than 1 meal per month (combined) of bluefish, striped bass, white perch and Atlantic needlefish, and do not eat more than 1 meal per week (combined) of all other fish from these waters.
- New York Harbor below Verrazano Bridge: Do not eat more than I meal per month of striped bass and do not eat more than 1 meal per week (combined) of American eels and bluefish from these waters.
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