Station
Bellefonte
Date
11/1/2001
% Lipids
7.7
7.8
6.9
8.2
7.1
7
6.5
5.6
5.9
6.1
7.9
6.6
6.1
6.4
8
PPM
0.064
0.067
0.069
0.072
0.084
0.079
0.062
0.056
0.052
0.052
0.049
0.056
0.087
0.052
0.061
Mean
0.071
UCL-C
0.079
Benner Spring
11/1/2001
0.06
0.071
Corry
11/7/2001
0.061
0.076
Huntsdale – Age 1
Retested
11/6/2001
6.1
6
5.4
6.1
6.3
1.4
0.12
0.2
0.19
0.13
0.408
0.938
Huntsdale - Age 2
Retested
11/6/2001
0.305
1/15/2002
0.3
0.12
0.34
0.12
0.12
0.37
0.087
0.25
0.16
0.086
1.2
2.6
0.3
0.28
0.3
0.2
Huntsdale – Age 1
6.1
7.2
5.8
5.8
5.7
4.5
5.6
6
6.7
6.1
6.5
6.5
4.7
7.2
6.7
0.191
0.306
Huntsdale – Age 2
Age 2 trout were
deferred from
stocking until
May 2002
1/15/2002
0.936
1.9
2002 Test Results
Notes: All trout stocked from Pennsylvania state hatcheries are safe to
catch, safe to handle and safe to eat in moderation in accord with
consumption advice. All recreationally-caught sportfish are subject to a
one-meal-per-week statewide consumption advisory. Trout stocked from
Huntsdale FCS are subject to a one-meal-per-month consumption
advisory.
The reported numbers in fractions of a part per million derived from the
sample test results are not as meaningful as the broad categories of
consumption advice. The numerical test results are subject to variation as
a result of sample and statistical variations and laboratory analysis.
Numbers that may look different may mean exactly to the same thing.
All samples tested in 2002 were taken, prepared for analysis, and
analyzed by the Department of Environmental Protection.
Recommendations for consumption advisories were made by DEP and
the Department of Health. For spring 2002, five samples of eight trout
were taken from each state hatchery, and decisions about the
appropriateness of consumption advisories were based on a different
statistical analysis than used in the past. This analysis (the results of
which are shown in the UCL-C column) incorporates not only the mean
but also its sampling variability.
Trout were taken from Huntsdale FCS in November 2001. Those samples
were tested, and it was decided to retest them because of the degree of
variability among the samples. Samples were again taken in January
2002. The two-year-old trout tested in January 2002 showed a high
degree of variability in the sample results. Accordingly, the Commission
will not include any age two trout from Huntsdale in the scheduled 2002
spring stockings until completion of further testing and analysis.
Fillets from Age 2 trout at Huntsdale were retested on a raceway-byraceway basis. Sixteen raceway sections were tested. Trout from 11 of
these raceway sections showed levels of PCBs consistent with a onemeal-per-month or one-meal-per-week consumption advisory. Starting
after May 21, 2002, these trout are being stocked in waters previously
stocked from Huntsdale FCS as part of the 2002 stocking effort. These
fish, like all trout stocked from Huntsdale, are under a one-meal-permonth consumption advisory. Trout from the other raceways, which
showed higher levels of PCBs (above one-meal-per-month) are not being
stocked in Spring 2002.
Oswayo
11/5/2001
6.5
7.1
6
6.8
7
0.045
0.051
0.042
0.075
0.048
0.052
0.065
Pleasant Gap
11/6/2001
0.057
11/7/2001
0.056
0.066
Tylersville
11/6/2001
0.046
0.05
0.058
0.056
0.054
0.04
0.068
0.052
0.06
0.058
0.151
0.138
0.1
0.161
0.183
0.053
Reynoldsdale
6.2
6.5
5.9
6.8
6.4
7.2
7.6
6.9
6.9
7.4
7
7.3
5.8
7.3
6.6
0.147
0.176