Central New Yorkers should only eat up to four meals a month of brown bullhead and pumpkinseed. They have been added to the lake's fish advisory list this year.
It's also recommended that older women and adult men avoid eating large or smallmouth bass over 15 inches; as well as carp, channel catfish, white perch, and walleye.
Women under 50 years old and children under 15 shouldn't eat any fish at all from Onondaga Lake.
"We don't recommend that people eat fish out of here," said SUNY ESF Dean of Research Neil Ringler
I'm glad to see this information getting out to people- it's absolutely criminal that the current warnings about fish consumption aren't posted clearly around the lake. We can't expect that everyone fishing from the lake has a fishing liscense, and has read the fish consumption advisory booklet put out by the DEC. There is a very large immigrant population on the North Side; many come from countries in which fishing from the local waterbody was the way that you get your dinner. How are they to know not to fish from Onondaga Lake?
Someday we will be able to eat the fish again; but that's not possible until the toxins in the lake - especially the PCBs and mercury in the sediments - are cleaned up.
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