05-24-2004, 02:16 PM
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]LEWISTOWN, MT—The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department (FWPD) announced last week that tests showed 478,000 rainbow trout at the Big Springs Trout Hatchery were contaminated with toxic PCBs, many of them with concentrations well above the state's "do not eat limit." The fish were killed and transported to a Great Falls, Montana, area landfill.[/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The FWPD says it learned last summer that PCB-laced paint used on the hatchery's raceways during the 1960s and '70s had flaked off over the decades, contaminating the blue ribbon trout stream's wild fish population downstream. [/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of the hatchery facility. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The FWPD says it learned last summer that PCB-laced paint used on the hatchery's raceways during the 1960s and '70s had flaked off over the decades, contaminating the blue ribbon trout stream's wild fish population downstream. [/size][/#000000][/font]
[font "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][#000000][size 2]The Environmental Protection Agency will oversee the cleanup of the hatchery facility. [/size][/#000000][/font]
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