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Mercury advisory for fish expanded

What do they mean by natural? Is it natural runoff from old mine tailing?

No amount of mercury is safe and it has an accumulative affect when eaten, even in small doses it can grow to excessive levels in our bodies. Not only does this affect humans, it affects the fish and any animal eating the fish causing deformities and death.

It seems the DWR and department of health are fearful of losses in license fees and put money over the health and safety issue. Health departments are not reliable or honest about any of this information they release. The guidelines and limits are used to deceive the public to benefit government agency's and water systems.

Guess we'll start seeing some fantastic wiper fishing in Newcastle now that everyone is basically forced to catch and release...It would be nice if the DWR could identify the source of the mercury and create a plan of action to address the problem. This makes 3 of southern Utah's few reservoirs unfit for harvesting fish. I wonder if the others have been tested recently? who else is eating poison fish unknowingly?

Make that 4 reservoirs unfit for harvest.