Fish Tissue Pesticide Screen

Name: Fish Tissue Pesticide Screen
Brand: Lake Pulse
Price: 300.00 USD
Availability: InStock

A broad screen of pesticide residues in fish from your lake.

$300

Checkout arrives with the store connection. Orders attach to the lake on your account.

Product category

Physical ProductShips to you
ConsumableLab testing
ServiceBy the Lake Pulse Boathouse
CombinationKit with multiple items

In stock
Kit ships in 1–2 business days
Shipping
Flat-rate to your front door. Shipping details
SKU
F-TIS-003

Overview

Lakes with agricultural land in their watershed receive pesticide residues through runoff and drift. Some compounds break down quickly; others persist in sediment for decades and accumulate in the animals that live in and on it. This is a screening test: it covers a wide range of compounds at once, rather than measuring a single one with maximum sensitivity.

It is most useful for lakes with row-crop agriculture, orchards, or turf operations in the watershed, and for associations that want to know whether a suspected problem is present before commissioning targeted work.

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.

Fish Tissue Metals Test — mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and lead
Fish Tissue PFAS Test — PFAS, including PFOS
Fish Tissue Pesticide Screen — a broad screen of pesticide residues

Turnaround

Results are available within 10 business days of the lab receiving your sample.

What problem does this solve for our lake?

What's included?

One (1) fish tissue sampling kit for a single fillet sample
All materials required for clean sample collection, packaging, and cold shipping
Step-by-step instructions covering filleting, labeling, freezing, and shipping
A sample record form for species, length, weight, catch location, and catch date
Shipping to an accredited laboratory, with full chain of custody
Laboratory analysis screening a broad list of pesticide residues in fish tissue
A lab report listing detections and concentrations
Results loaded into your lake's account

What's not included

Fish collection. You catch, fillet, and ship the sample; we supply everything needed to do it correctly.
A consumption advisory or safety determination of any kind. That authority belongs to your state agency.
Results that describe the whole lake. One fillet describes one fish, of one species and size, caught at one place and time.
Regulatory or compliance determinations
Metals or PFAS. Those are separate tests.
Maximum sensitivity for any single compound. A broad screen trades depth for coverage; if you are looking for one compound, ask the Boathouse about a targeted analysis.
Identification of a source. A detection describes the fish, not the field it came from.

Requirements

Fish handled and frozen promptly after catch, then shipped per the kit instructions
Species, length, weight, catch location, and catch date recorded for each sample — results cannot be interpreted without them
Fillets prepared consistently, skin on or skin off, and recorded either way
One species and one size class per sample. Contaminants vary widely between a small panfish and a large predator from the same lake.
Your state's sampling guidance followed where you intend to compare results with its advisory
A Plus, Lake Admin, or PRO subscription to have results loaded into your Lake Pulse account
Questions about species selection, sampling design, or how results relate to your state advisory? Contact the Lake Pulse Boathouse before you order.

What you get back

Results

Detections and concentrations across the screened pesticide residues in the sampled fillet
Results recorded against the species, size, and catch location you provide
A dated entry in your lake's record, so results accumulate across species and years
The signed lab report filed in Documents & Reports
Results are found in your lake's portal, accessible only to Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscription tiers

Pro tips

Order this when the watershed gives you a reason to. Without agricultural, orchard, or turf land upstream, a broad screen usually returns little.
Start with the state advisory. Read what your state already says about this lake and these species before ordering. Testing adds to that picture; it does not replace it.
Sample the species people actually eat, and the sizes they keep. Larger, older predators carry the most.
Test several fish, not one. Individual fish vary enough that a single fillet is an anecdote.
Repeat over years, using the same species and size class, if you want to see a trend.
Share results carefully. Fish results move a lake community quickly. Call the Boathouse before publishing anything.

We will never say we handle the science for you. A method you can see is one you can check, repeat, and defend. Lake Pulse sells measurement, not treatment — what you buy here positions you to solve the problem, and to prove whether it worked.

Results sync to the Portal for Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscribers

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.

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