The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest report on U.S. Coastal Waters (National Coastal Condition Assessment 2010) shows concerning evidence of declining fish health. “Ecological Fish Tissue Quality is rated good for less than 1% of the nation’s waters. This means there is a potential threat to the most sensitive predators (fish, birds, and wildlife) that consume fish in most waters.”

Lakes nearshore waters are rated good, 26% are rated fair, and 49% are rated poor. According to USEPA, data are incomplete or missing for the remaining 24% of waters. The findings indicate that contaminants in fish may have long-term adverse effects on fish-eating wildlife. With the exception of a supplemental study in the Great Lakes, the agency did not evaluate human health risks in the report. >Read More via http://www.epa.gov/national-aquatic-resource-surveys/national-coastal-condition-assessment-2010-results