Enhancing WI's Fish Advisory Program: Emerging Chemicals, Angler Awareness, Exposure, Health Status, Outreach
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Purpose

This five year project includes all components needed to improve Wisconsin’s fish consumption advisories: assessment of essential nutrients and contaminants in Great Lakes fish; consumer focus groups; serial evaluation of advisory awareness and fish consumption; contaminant body burdens and health status among elderly men who eat frequent meals of Great Lakes fish; and the development of interactive web pages and electronic media outreach tools. Fish and human tissues will be analyzed for selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, polychlorinated biphenyls (including PCB11), brominated flame retardants, perflourinated organic acids, toxaphene, DDE, and toxic metals.

Objective

Objective 1: Improve our understanding of the human health risks and benefits of eating sport fish from the Great Lakes Objective 2: Expand the monitoring of GL fish to include chemicals of emerging toxicological concern as well as nutritional elements. Objective 3. Enhance Wisconsin’s advisory programs to reflect Consortium and Wisconsin project findings to improve outreach

Outcome

This project will result in an improved advisory for Great Lakes sportfish that is a based on current measurements of nutrients and a broad array of contaminants. Currently, there is an untested assumption that people who don’t eat fish are deficient in these nutrients. Yet, a variety of other foods, such as nuts and legumes, can provide these nutrients if consumed in sufficient quantities. We need to understand whether it is appropriate to advise everyone, including vegetarians who typically have lower cardiovascular disease rates than omnivores, to eat more fish. In addition, this project will provide sizeand location- specific information about nutrient and contaminant concentrations in the edible portion of several species of Great Lakes sport fish. This information will be used to assess the need for a more comprehensive and balanced consumption advisory. A secondary outcome is a more informed consumer and reduced risk of exposure to bioaccumulative toxins found in fish from these lakes.

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Q4 Report - Enhancing WI's Fish Advisory Program: Emerging Chemicals, Angler Awareness, Exposure, Health Status, Outreach
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This five year project includes all components needed to improve Wisconsin’s fish consumption advisories: assessment of essential nutrients and contaminants in Great Lakes fish; consumer focus groups; serial evaluation of advisory awareness and fish consumption; contaminant body burdens and health status among elderly men who eat frequent meals of Great Lakes fish; and the development of interactive web pages and electronic media outreach tools. Fish and human tissues will be analyzed for selenium, omega-3 fatty acids, polychlorinated biphenyls (including PCB11), brominated flame retardants, perflourinated organic acids, toxaphene, DDE, and toxic metals.
 
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Yahara River and Lake Monona
 
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Lake Monona
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