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Advisory issued to avoid eating fish in section of Clark Fork

by Mineral Independent
| December 23, 2020 12:00 AM

The State of Montana Fish Guidance Board, which includes Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the departments of Environmental Quality, and Public Health and Human Services, has updated the fish consumption guidance for all species of fish on a 148-mile stretch of the Clark Fork River and tributaries in western Montana in response to new research results.

Guidance now recommends avoiding consumption of all species of fish from the Clark Fork River’s confluence with the Bitterroot River, just west of Missoula, to the confluence with the Flathead River, near Paradise...

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