The State of Georgia recommends only eating one meal a month of largemouth bass and one meal a week of redbreast and channel catfish from the Ogeechee and Canoochee Rivers due ...

The amount of information for species along Georgia's coast is not as abundant as it is for the blackwater rivers. In the Ogeechee River system, it is recommended that ...

The US EPA recently conducted mercury studies on the Canoochee River and the Ogeechee River and found that only 1% of the mercury in the Rivers comes from direct discharges into ...

What Are Health Effects of Mercury? The Georgia EPD classifies mercury as a persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemical (PBT). This means that organisms (including humans) take up mercury more ...

First, talk to you doctor. He or she can help you determine if you should test blood or hair levels for mercury.

Since mercury accumulates (or builds up) as it moves up the food chain, larger, older fish tend to have higher levels of mercury. This was found to be the case in ...

Researchers in south Florida found that a 90% reduction in mercury emissions has resulted in a rapid decline in the levels of mercury in the fish. Florida’s Department ...

Blackwater rivers , like the Ogeechee and Canoochee and other southeast Georgia streams, have a unique water chemistry that converts mercury entering the river into it's most toxic form, methylmercury.  ...