Reports, fact sheets, quality assurance plans and other study documents on the National Lake Fish Tissue Study.
You will need Adobe Reader to view some of the files on this page. See EPA’s About PDF page to learn more.- Final Report Executive Summary (PDF)(22 pp, 4 MB)
- Survey design for lakes and reservoirs in the United States to assess contaminants in fish tissue (PDF)(10 pp, 870 K)
- Contaminants in fish tissue from US lakes and reservoirs: a national probabilistic study (PDF)(17 pp, 834 K)
- Sample Collection Activities QAPP (PDF)(114 pp, 626 K)
- Analytical Activities QAPP (PDF)(46 pp, 1 MB)
- Analytical Data QA Report (PDF)(57 pp, 259 K)
- Data Analysis Activities QAPP (PDF)(67 pp, 986 K)
- National Lake Fish Tissue Study Sampling Locations (PDF)(24 pp, 272 K)
- Recommended Target Species for Lakes and Reservoirs (in Order of Preference) (PDF)(1 pg, 208 K)
- Fish Composite Summary (PDF)(3 pp, 279 K)
- Analytical Methods Summary (PDF)(7 pp, 132 K)
- Chemicals Not Detected (PDF)(1 pg, 198 K)
- Commonly Detected Chemicals (PDF)(1 pg, 117 K)
- Distribution of Sampling Locations Map (PDF)(1 pg, 18 K)
- List of 500 Sampling Locations map (PDF)(1 pg, 80 K)