USFWS will check federal hatchery fish in the Northeast for safe consumption

; The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will test fish in its national fish hatcheries in the Northeast for the possibility of contaminants, according to Marvin Moriarty, regional director for the Service in the Northeast. The Service gives excess Atlantic salmon, lake trout and rainbow trout from its hatcheries to Northeast states for recreational fish stocking.

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; In the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science, both polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and dioxins were documented as occurring in farm-raised salmon. The article reports that these contaminants probably came from fish food.

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