Mercury and heavy metals in the fish your lake community eats.
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Mercury is the most common reason states advise limits on eating freshwater fish. It enters lakes from the air and from the watershed, is converted by bacteria into a form that accumulates in living tissue, and concentrates up the food chain, so the largest, oldest predators carry the most. A lake can have excellent water quality and still produce fish with meaningful mercury levels, because the two are measured in different places.
This test measures mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the flesh of a fish caught from your lake. You catch and fillet the fish, record its species, size, and where it came from, and ship the sample to an accredited laboratory.
What this test does and does not decide. Lake Pulse sells tests that measure what is in the fish. We do not decide whether you can eat it. Fish consumption advice is issued by state health and natural resource agencies, which set advice by species, by size, and by who is eating, and their advisory for your lake stands regardless of what a single fillet shows. Check your state advisory first, and treat these results as additional information alongside it, never as a replacement for it.
One of three fish tissue tests. Each measures a different group of contaminants in the flesh of fish caught from your lake.
4 parameters · Fish tissue metals panel (4 metals)
| Parameter | Result type |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Quantitative |
| Arsenic | Quantitative |
| Cadmium | Quantitative |
| Lead | Quantitative |
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4 metals reported
Compare with your state's fish consumption advisory, which governs
Results are available within 10 business days of the lab receiving your sample.
Results from this product land in your lake's shared record in the Portal — next to everything else your lake has ever measured, instead of in an inbox.
Compare subscriptionsEvery result shows the catch date and the species, size, and location you record. Results reflect one fillet from one fish, analyzed by an independent accredited laboratory using the method stated on your report. Contaminant levels vary by species, size, age, and where a fish fed, so one fish does not represent every fish in the lake. Where the laboratory provides detection and reporting limits, they are reported with your results; a non-detection does not prove absence. Lake Pulse measures what is in the fish; it does not decide whether fish are safe to eat. Fish consumption advice is issued by state health and natural resource agencies by species, size, and who is eating, and their advisory for your lake stands regardless of what a single fillet shows. Check your state advisory first. Decisions, and responsibility for any action taken, rest with you.
Our team can help you choose the right solution for your lake, explain how results sync to your Portal, or point you to the right subscription.
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