Harvard School of Public Health & Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium   Recreational Anglers Survey

Recreational Angler Survey and Mercury Study

The Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) are recruiting recreational anglers who fish in coastal Louisiana to participate in a study about fish consumption and exposure to mercury.  To participate in the study, you must live in Louisiana and fish recreationally in coastal LA (saltwater), either inshore, offshore or both. 

This survey will be available on-line until November 15, 2006.  Participants will be entered into a raffle for ten $25 gift certificates to an outdoor sporting goods store. 

The purpose of the study is to understand how much fish and what types of fish recreational anglers in coastal Louisiana eat.  Another goal of the study is to estimate recreational anglers' exposure to mercury by measuring the amount of mercury in small hair samples that study participants provide.  

HSPH will send participants a kit with instructions and a postage-paid return envelope to send the sample back.  HSPH will measure the mercury in the hair sample free of charge and send participants their confidential result along with information on how to interpret the result. 

For more information, or to participate in the survey, go to www.hsph.harvard.edu/water