Connecticut Issues Warning On Bluefish, Striped Bass Thanks To PCB Levels - Hartford Courant

The Connecticut Department of Public Health is issuing renewed warnings that young children, and women who are pregnant, nursing or of childbearing age, should not eat two types of fish.

Authorities in Connecticut and six other East Coast states — Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware — released coordinated warnings about the striped bass and large bluefish over 25 inches from their local waters. In Connecticut, both are commonly caught in Long Island Sound.

The fish contain polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, at levels that are of potential concern to the general public, according to the Connecticut Department of Public Health. PCBs can affect the endocrine system and brain development and can cause cancer in animals.

Wednesday's advisory reflected new data indicating that PCB levels have dropped. In the past few years, the state health department has recommended that the general public eat large bluefish and striped bass only once every two months, rather than every month as advised this year.

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http://www.courant.com/health/hc-fish-warning-0604.artjun04,0,7577015.story

bass is "rockfish."