Heads up if you're heading to the gulf coast

[krazy kris]

Check out the TPWD website. Mercury is concern for ALL Texas Coastal Waters. Blue Marlin, blackfin tuna, little tunny, crevalle jack, swordfish, wahoo, all species of sharks and king mackerel (king is not new I think).

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/regulations/fish_hunt/fish/consumption_bans.phtml

[talisman]

Good to know. I'll be in Corpus in a couple of weeks.

[line-em-up]

And a little closer to home.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas County
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins
•Persons should not consume any species of fish from these waters.

Lake Worth in Tarrant County
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), aldrin, dieldrin
•Persons should not consume blue catfish, channel catfish or smallmouth buffalo from these waters.
•This replaces a previous advisory issued in 2000. See details.

Fosdic Lake in Tarrant County
•For common carp, adults and children 12 and older should eat no more than two 8-ounce servings per month.
•Children under 12 should eat no more than two 4-ounce servings per month.
•Women who are or might become pregnant and women who are nursing should not eat any common carp from the lake.

Clear Fork of Trinity River from Benbrook Reservoir dam and West Fork from Lake Worth dam, including main stem of the Trinity downstream to US 287 bridge. Portions of Anderson, Dallas, Ellis, Freestone, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro and Tarrant counties.
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Dioxins
•Persons should not consume any species of fish from these waters.

[Couver]

And a little closer to home.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas County
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins
•Persons should not consume any species of fish from these waters.

Lake Worth in Tarrant County
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), aldrin, dieldrin
•Persons should not consume blue catfish, channel catfish or smallmouth buffalo from these waters.
•This replaces a previous advisory issued in 2000. See details.

Fosdic Lake in Tarrant County
•For common carp, adults and children 12 and older should eat no more than two 8-ounce servings per month.
•Children under 12 should eat no more than two 4-ounce servings per month.
•Women who are or might become pregnant and women who are nursing should not eat any common carp from the lake.

Clear Fork of Trinity River from Benbrook Reservoir dam and West Fork from Lake Worth dam, including main stem of the Trinity downstream to US 287 bridge. Portions of Anderson, Dallas, Ellis, Freestone, Henderson, Kaufman, Navarro and Tarrant counties.
Chemicals of Concern: Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Dioxins
•Persons should not consume any species of fish from these waters.

Lockhead and the base fucked that lake up... Between the dumping and jet crashes no wonder downstream is toxic.

[stevo]

My cousin lives in Corpus and fishes several times a week, as I posted this on her facebook, she was posting pics of the Mahi Mahi she cooked for dinner.

Stevo