Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Office of Water/OST Publication_Date: 199707 Title: 1996 National Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories for the United States Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Washington, D.C. Publisher: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Online_Linkage: For BASINS model and hydrographic data http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/ For original documentaion of source http://www.epa.gov/OST/fishadvice Description: Abstract: The 1996 update for the database, Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories, is now available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This database includes all available information describing state-, tribal-, and federally issued fish consumption advisories in the United States for the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. Territories, and has been expanded to include the 12 Canadian provinces and territories. The database contains information provided to EPA by the states, tribes, and Canada as of December 1996. This includes advisories issued by several Native American tribes. The number of advisories in the United States rose by 453 in 1996 to a total of 2,193 representing a 25 percent increase over 1995. The number of waterbodies under advisory represents 15 percent of the Nation's total lake acres and 5 percent of the Nation's total river miles. In addition, 100% of the Great Lakes waters and their connecting waters and a large portion of the Nation's coastal waters are also under advisory. The number of advisories in the United States increased for four major contaminants (mercury, PCBs, chlordane, and DDT). In 1996, the EPA contacted health officials in Canada in an effort to identify fish consumption advisories in effect. In Canada, a total of 2,617 advisories were in effect in 1996. All of the Canadian advisories resulted from contamination from five pollutants: mercury, PCBs, dioxin/furans, toxaphene, and mirex. Ninety-six percent of all the advisories resulted from mercury contamination in fish tissues. In addition, 87 percent of the advisories were issued by the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Purpose: The states and the four U.S. Territories and Native American tribes (hereafter referred to as states) have primary responsibility for protecting their residents from the health risks of consuming contaminated noncommercially caught fish and wildlife. They do this by issuing consumption advisories for the general population, including recreational and subsistence fishers, as well as for sensitive subpopulations (such as pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children). These advisories inform the public that high concentrations of chemical contaminants have been found in local fish and wildlife. The advisories include recommendations to limit or avoid consumption of certain fish and wildlife species from specific waterbodies or, in some cases, from specific waterbody type (e.g., all lakes). Similarly, in Canada, the provinces and territories have primary responsibility for issuing fish consumption advisories. The database includes information on: 1) species and size range of fish and/or wildlife, 2) chemical contaminants identified in the advisory, 3) geographic location of each advisory, 4) lake acreage or river mileage under advisory, and 4) date the advisory was issued. Supplemental_Information: At the time the 1996 LFWA was evaluated for incorporation into BASINS, only a small portion of the data had been georeferenced. Therefore this database only includes the parametric information described above. Updates to these data will be made available in the future. Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 19961200 Currentness_Reference: Date range described in Fact Sheet (EPA-823-F-97-007) Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: annual Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.00 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -40.00 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 70.00 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 17.00 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none Theme_Keyword: Fish Advisories Theme_Keyword: Wildlife Advisories Theme_Keyword: Consumption Advisories Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System Place_Keyword: Conterminous United States of America Place_Keyword: Canada Place_Keyword: Puerto Rico PR Place_Keyword: U.S. Virgin Islands VI Place_Keyword: Alabama AL Place_Keyword: Alaska AK Place_Keyword: Arizona AZ Place_Keyword: Arkansas AR Place_Keyword: California CA Place_Keyword: Colorado CO Place_Keyword: Connecticut CT Place_Keyword: Delaware DE Place_Keyword: District of Columbia DC Place_Keyword: Florida FL Place_Keyword: Georgia GA Place_Keyword: Hawaii HI Place_Keyword: Idaho ID Place_Keyword: Illinois IL Place_Keyword: Indiana IN Place_Keyword: Iowa IA Place_Keyword: Kansas KS Place_Keyword: Kentucky KY Place_Keyword: Louisiana LA Place_Keyword: Maine ME Place_Keyword: Maryland MD Place_Keyword: Massachusetts MA Place_Keyword: Michigan MI Place_Keyword: Minnesota MN Place_Keyword: Mississippi MS Place_Keyword: Missouri MO Place_Keyword: Montana MT Place_Keyword: Nebraska NE Place_Keyword: Nevada NV Place_Keyword: New Hampshire NH Place_Keyword: New Jersey NJ Place_Keyword: New Mexico NM Place_Keyword: New York NY Place_Keyword: North Carolina NC Place_Keyword: North Dakota ND Place_Keyword: Ohio OH Place_Keyword: Oklahoma OK Place_Keyword: Oregon OR Place_Keyword: Pennsylvania PA Place_Keyword: Rhode Island RI Place_Keyword: South Carolina SC Place_Keyword: South Dakota SD Place_Keyword: Tennessee TN Place_Keyword: Texas TX Place_Keyword: Utah UT Place_Keyword: Vermont VT Place_Keyword: Virginia VA Place_Keyword: Washington WA Place_Keyword: West Virginia WV Place_Keyword: Wisconsin WI Place_Keyword: Wyoming WY Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: None Native_Data_Set_Environment: DBASE File format. Data_Quality_Information: Attribute_Accuracy: Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Most attribute definitions were derived from the more complete attribute labels that were available in the source data set. Logical_Consistency_Report: Not evaluated. Completeness_Report: For incorporation into BASINS 2.0, only the advisory-specific data were included. Summary data for each state and province are also available in the source data set. Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: The data were directly extracted from the source data files into DBASE formatted files for transporting into this application. Variable names were converted to meet requirements of DBASE formatted files. Most attribute definitions were derived from the more complete attribute labels that were available in the source data set. Process_Date: 19980218 Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: LFWA-ADV.DBF Entity_Type_Definition: Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories, Advisory Level Data Entity_Type_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVISORY Attribute_Definition: Name of advisory (e.g., Coosa River, West Point Lake) Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented Attribute: Attribute_Label: STATE Attribute_Definition: State, Territory, or Canadian Province where the advisory is located Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: US State or Canadian Province two letter abbreviations Codeset_Source: FIPS Attribute: Attribute_Label: REGION Attribute_Definition: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region or 'CA' for Canada Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Codeset_Domain: Codeset_Name: USEPA Region (e.g., 01, ..., 10) or CA for Canada Codeset_Source: EPA Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVEXTNT Attribute_Definition: Geographic extent of advisory (e.g., between Riverside and the Alabama-Georgia State line). Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented Attribute: Attribute_Label: ISSUER Attribute_Definition: Agency type that issued the advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Army Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Army Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: City Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: City Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Federal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Federal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Local health dept. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Local health dept. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Province Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Province Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: State Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: State Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: State/Tribal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: State/Tribal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Tribal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Tribal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVTYPE Attribute_Definition: Waterbody type that the advisory is located on Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Bayou Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Bayous Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Estuary Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Estuarine waters Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Statewide advisory Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Advisory for all waterbodies (or all waterbodies of a selected type or types) in a state or province Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Great Lake Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior and all connecting waterbodies. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Lake Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Lakes, reserviors, and ponds Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Multi-class Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Advisory applies to more than one type of waterbody. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: River Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Rivers and streams Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Regional Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Advisory applies to a region such as a river basin or a portion of a State. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Canal Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Artificial Canals Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVNUM Attribute_Definition: Unique number assigned to advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 1 to 103935) Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVINDEX Attribute_Definition: Adviosory Index Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 0 to 5387) Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATERESC Attribute_Definition: Date the advisory was rescinded (MM/DD/YY) format Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 0 to 5387) Attribute: Attribute_Label: COUNT Attribute_Definition: Count Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: There is one advisory associated with this record in the database Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVSTAT Attribute_Definition: Advisory Status Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Active Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The advisory is active Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Rescinded Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The advisory has been rescinded Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVSIZE Attribute_Definition: Size of the advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 0 to 5387) Attribute_Units_of_Measure: miles for river advisories, acres for lake advisories Attribute: Attribute_Label: YEAR Attribute_Definition: Year the entry in the source data was updated Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1996 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The entry was updated in 1996 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Detailed_Description: Entity_Type: Entity_Type_Label: LFWA-DET.DBF Entity_Type_Definition: Listing of Fish Consumption Advisories, Details Entity_Type_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVNUM Attribute_Definition: Unique number assigned to advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 1 to 103935) Attribute: Attribute_Label: POLLUTANT Attribute_Definition: Name of pollutant associated with this portion of the advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented Attribute: Attribute_Label: SPECIES Attribute_Definition: Name of fish or wildlife (including size restrictions) associated with this portion of the advisory. Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented Attribute: Attribute_Label: POPULAT Attribute_Definition: Type of population affected this portion of the advisory Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: CFB Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Commercial Fishing Ban: Bans commercial harvest and/or sale due to chemical contamination. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: NCGP Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No Consumption- General Population: Advises against consumption by the general population. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: NCSP Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No Consumption- Subpopulation(s): Advises against consumption potentially at greater risk, e.g., pregnant or nursing women, and small children. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: RGP Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Restricted Consumption- General Population: Advises the general population to restrict the size of the organism and/or the frequency of meals consumed. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: RSP Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Restricted Consumption- Subpopulation(s): Advises subpopulations potentially at greater risk, e.g., pregnant or nursing women, and/or small children, to restrict the size of the organism and/or frequency of meals consumed. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: IHA Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: Informational Health Advisory indicating that tissues do not contain pollutant residues at high enough concentrations to warrant restricting consumption, however, the contaminants have been detected. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: NKZ Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: No-Kill Zones indicate that it is illegal to take, kill or possess any fish from specified waters due to chemical contamination. Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: ADVSTAT Attribute_Definition: Advisory Status Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: Active Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The advisory is active Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Enumerated_Domain_Value: Rescinded Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The advisory has been rescinded Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute: Attribute_Label: DATERESC Attribute_Definition: Date the advisory was rescinded (MM/DD/YY) format Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Unrepresentable_Domain: cannot be represented (currently a number from 0 to 5387) Attribute: Attribute_Label: YEAR Attribute_Definition: Year the entry in the source data was updated Attribute_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Attribute_Domain_Values: Enumerated_Domain: Enumerated_Domain_Value: 1996 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition: The entry was updated in 1996 Enumerated_Domain_Value_Definition_Source: EPA/OW Distribution_Information: Distributor: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: USEPA Office of Water/OST Basins Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (4305T) City: Washington State_or_Province: District of Columbia Postal_Code: 20460 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202-566-0400 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 202-566-0409 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: basins@epa.gov Hours_of_Service: 9-3 EST Distribution_Liability: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system under contract to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), no warranty expressed or implied is made by the USEPA regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The USEPA will warrant the delivery of this product in computer-readable format. Standard_Order_Process: Digital_Form: Digital_Transfer_Information: Format_Name: Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) ArcView Shapefile Digital_Transfer_Option: Online_Option: Computer_Contact_Information: Network_Address: Network_Resource_Name: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/basins/ Offline_Option: Offline_Media: CD-ROM Recording_Format: ISO 9660 Fees: None Ordering_Instructions: When requesting data by phone or mail, please inquire about spatial data sets that work with Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS). The BASINS web page has instructions for downloading datasets. It also has a link to The National Center for Environmental Publications and Information (NCEPI), from which BASINS CD-ROMs may be ordered. Each CD-ROM contains the BASINS v2.0 Application and this data set along with others covering the spatial extent of an EPA Region. Metadata_Reference_Information: Metadata_Date: 20070611 Metadata_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Organization_Primary: Contact_Organization: USEPA Office of Water/OST/SASD Basins Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (4305T) City: Washington State_or_Province: District of Columbia Postal_Code: 20460 Contact_Voice_Telephone: 202-566-0400 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 202-566-0409 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: basins@epa.gov Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Metadata_Standard_Version: 19940608