New Bedford Harbor

Contaminant Monitoring Report for Seafood Harvested in 2014 from the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site, August 2015

This report documents the levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) measured in edible seafood species caught in the New Bedford Harbor and surrounding Buzzards Bay in southeastern Massachusetts in 2014. This seafood monitoring program is part of the ongoing PCB cleanup program for the New Bedford Harbor (NBH) Superfund Site, and was a collaborative effort involving the MA Department of Marine Fisheries (DMF), the MA Department of Environmental Protection, (MassDEP), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region I (EPA).

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