Wildlife

Educate fishers on safe consumption of fish

Organization: 
Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To continue to educate fishers on safe consumption of fish by volunteers, bilingual safe fishing signage posted at river locales and by building grassroots support for a new state ban on lead fishing weights in the interest of fishers' and wildlife well-being.

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Understanding the Fate of Formaldehyde in the Q River

Organization: 
Yale School of Forestry/Environmental Studies
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
140 000.00
Description: 
To test the hypothesis that Cytec is discharging into the Quinnipiac a large amount ot polymeric formaldehyde which a) has not been accounted for in the permitting process; b) becomes bioavailable over time; c) has great potential to accumulate in sediments and organisms.

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Analyze Food Fish

Organization: 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
6 850.00
Description: 
To continue to analyze food fish from the Quinnipiac and Mill Rivers for toxic organic and inorganic contaminants.

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Analyze Food Fish

Organization: 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 000.00
Description: 
To sample and analyze food fish from the Quinnipiac and Mill Rivers for toxic organic and inorganic contaminants.

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Purchase Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

Organization: 
Yale University
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
12 000.00
Description: 
To purchase a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer in order to conduct studies on the types and levels of organic contaminants in water & tissue of fish & other organisms.

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3 Hydrographic Dye Dilution Studies

Organization: 
CT Dept. of Agriculture/Aquaculture Division
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
7 000.00
Description: 
Complete three hydrographic dye dilution studies of the Wastewater Pollution Control Facilities.

Added dye to water from local Wastewater Pollution control facilities and studied how water and sewage moved into shellfish growing areas. Readings found to be consistent with typical sea water studies (higher flow after rain storm), though one area had higher flow than other two, and one shellfish breeding area was raised from "restricted" to "conditionally approved."

Assess Tautog Embryos

Organization: 
National Marine Fisheries Service
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
4 700.00
Description: 
Use plankton net to collect tautog embryos and assess their viability in New Haven Harbor.

Spawning cycle and embryo viability of tautogs assessed in New Haven Harbor. Found peak spawning time during summer, decreased as progressed, and found reasonably low levels of contamination, though viability decreased the later spawning occurred during spawning season.

Sampling of Various Species

Organization: 
National Marine Fisheries Service
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
3 400.00
Description: 
For a yearround sampling of various species to estimate incidences of erythrocyte micronucleation to evaluate effects on health fish.

Chromosomal abnormalities (erythrocyte micronucleation) due to water and environmental contamination in blackfish in New Haven harbor found to be high, not dependent on sex or length.

Document the Macrobenthic Structure of River

Organization: 
Southern Connecticut State University
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
4 738.90
Description: 
To document the macrobenthic structure of the lower Quinnipiac River as an "ecological benchmark" against future changes.

Evaluate healthiness and diversity of benthic communities in lower Qriver and assess effect of environmental stressors on these communities. High stability and consistency of assemblage of species found. Moderately stressed conditions also found.

Measure/Assess Organic & Metal Contaminants

Organization: 
University of New Haven, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science
Date Issued: 
Amount: 
5 000.00
Description: 
To measure and assess organic and metal contaminants in the eggs, liver, kidney and flesh of tautog (blackfish) from New Haven Harbor.

Assess levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in various parts of blackfish in New Haven Harbor to determine source of contamination (sewage, industrial, etc) and whether contaminants move up the food chain. Determined levels of pollution were higher in blackfish than in predicted by sediment and that pollutants did move up food chain.

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