Fish Consumption Advisories in the Detroit River: A Canadian and US Partnering Opportunity

Workshop Agenda

Workshop Logistics

Click here for directions to workshop.

Travel from the US to Canada does not require a passport but it is highly recommended. A drivers license plus a birth certificate are acceptable until June 2009. To accommodate US travelers, we will have vans available to transport US participants from Detroit to the conference site. If you are interested in this option. YOU WILL NEED TO NOTIFY Ann Krause () if you would like to reserve a spot in one of the vans.

Maps to Van Location and Associated Parking

• Map to US parking for workshop (.pdf)
• Assumption Church Parking and GLIER (.pdf)

Departure: Detroit-Windsor Departure; 8:00, 8:15
Return: Windsor-Detroit Departure: 3:30, 4:00, 5:00

Parking at GLIER: Assumption Church, 350 Huron Church Road, Windsor.

An additional van will be leaving from Ann Arbor (space limited: Contact Donna Kashian ().

Workshop Objectives

The overall goal of this workshop is to have you participate in developing working groups that help to address key questions identified in the last workshop.

Key Findings from Detroit River Fish Consumption Guides: Navigating the Issues

1. How can we increase public awareness of FCA?
1. How can we make FCA a higher priority within agencies?
2. Why is so much money spent on research and monitoring but not on dissemination of knowledge?
2. Do the fish collected represent the population?
3. What are the contaminant levels of fish not included in the advisory that are edible?
4. Where are the sources of contaminant in the basin that are high enough to translate into FCA?
5. Are we appropriately measuring emerging contaminant?