Table of human health risks from Willacker, et al., 2020

Table of human health risks from Willacker, et al., 2020. Objective: Examining potential human health risks only

Pros:

• Provides critical data for identifying sites where fish consumption advisories are warranted
• Program cost may be lower if only focusing on edible sized sportfish

Cons:

• Provides limited information on risk to fish and wildlife

Objective: Examining potential risks to humans, fish, and wildlife

Pros:

• In addition to informing fish consumption advisories, provides data necessary to evaluate and manage risk to ecologically and economically valuabel resources.
• The additional sampling necessary to evaluate wildlife risk (i.e., smaller individual fish) can also provide information on the relationship between fish size and risk to human consumers.

Cons:

• Added logistics and cost of collecting additional samples