PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A \u201cdo not eat\u201d fish consumption advisory has been issued for the Wissahickon Creek Basin in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties due to high levels of a synthetic chemical.<\/p>\n
The advisory was announced because fish tissue sampled from the basin was found to contain high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS. PFOS are considered \u201cforever chemicals\u201d because they are extremely resistant to breaking down in natural environments and can last for decades or longer, accumulating over time, according to Yale Sustainability<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mike Parker, communication director for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC), said the advisory has been disruptive to fishing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were scheduled to stock trout in Wissahickon Creek, Section 04, in the city of Philadelphia on October 15th, and now, because of this \u2018do not eat\u2019 designation\u2026 we discontinued that stocking,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know it\u2019s disappointing for people, we know this is a lack of a fishing opportunity.\u201d <\/p>\n The PFBC is hoping to hear from anglers about their thoughts on the advisory, and is planning a public meeting in Upper Roxborough next month. <\/p>\n \u201cWe want to hear from you to see if we can come up with some options,\u201d Parker explained. \u201cTo make sure we know where everybody is and hopefully move forward with our trout stocking practices as the anglers would like.\u201d <\/p>\n The meeting is set for Nov. 5 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education at 8480 Hagy\u2019s Mill Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A \u201cdo not eat\u201d fish consumption advisory has been issued for the Wissahickon Creek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2214,55808,28411,58829,69,71,70,33422],"class_list":["post-304576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-advisory","tag-forever-chemicals","tag-pennsylvania-fish-and-boat-commission","tag-pfos","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-wissahickon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}