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PA DEP - Pennsylvania Fish Mercury Monitoring Program
| OverviewMercury monitoring of sportfish by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Initiated 1979. Whole body and fillet samples of a wide variety of recreational fish species. Source Agency: Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ContactMichael (Josh) Lookenbill, Biologist Address Phone: 717-783-2959 Fax: 717-772-3249 |
| Name of dataset | Pennsylvania Fish Mercury Monitoring Program |
| Geographic area | Pennsylvania |
| State/Province | PA |
| Activity Category | Monitoring |
| Medium | fish |
| Focal species | recreational sportfish (species of bass, trout, sucker, eel, walleye, redhorse, crappie, carp, catfish, perch, pickerel, bullhead, sunfish, turtle, and others) |
| Tissue Types | fillet, whole body |
| Approximate size of dataset | 1900 |
| Positional data available? | yes |
| Start Date | 1979 |
| End Date | 2007 |
| Collection season | all seasons |
| Collection Months | all months |
| Historic # Of Sampling Locations | 700 |
| Size of Sampling Area | state of Pennsylvania |
| Individual or composite samples? | Composite |
| Ecosystem Focus | water bodies |
| Data Use | Unrestricted |
| Quality Assurance | no |
| Data Format | Microsoft Excel |
| Hg Measurements | THg |
| Hg Measurement Weight | ww |
| Ancillary Data | weight, length |
| BRI has data? | yes |
| Data downloadable on external website? | no |
