Jun 19, 2009 4:55 pm US/Pacific
New Safe-Eating Guidelines Issued For SoCal Fish
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―
The state Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is updating its safe-eating guidelines for fish caught off Southern California because of PCBs, DDT and other contaminants.
Spokesman Sam Delson says officials expanded the sampling area from Ventura Harbor to Carlsbad. Fish from 22 species were analyzed for contaminants.
Consumers are warned to avoid white croaker, barred sand bass and topsmelt from Santa Monica Beach to Seal Beach Pier. Children under 18 and women under the age of 45 are also warned not to eat black croaker or barracuda from Ventura Harbor to San Mateo Point.
PCBs and DDTs are man-made chemicals that were banned in the 1970s. But by then large amounts of the contaminants had flowed into the ocean and were deposited on the seafloor off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. They continue to be absorbed by fish.
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