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DRBC Staff Presents to the American Fisheries Society
Logo for the 148th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society.

One of the key components of DRBC’s water quality management strategy is monitoring, because, quite simply, you can’t manage what you don’t measure. DRBC staff are active throughout the year monitoring the shared water resources of the Delaware River to ensure that the basin's water resources are being managed and protected and that commission water quality criteria are being met.

When opportunities arise, DRBC staff enjoy sharing this technical expertise with their peers from other agencies and organizations, as well as the general public.

DRBC Senior Environmental Toxicologist Ron MacGillivray, Ph.D., recently presented at the 148th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society in Atlantic City, N.J. on DRBC's monitoring program for contaminants in fish tissue. Dr. MacGillivray (who presented on behalf of DRBC Senior Geologist Greg Cavallo, PG, who could not attend) discussed data findings, how DRBC's requirements for Pollutant Minimization Plans (PMPs) are reducing PCB loadings into the Delaware River and Bay, and how, based on these results, fish consumption advisories are improving in basin states. 

View presentation: A Spatial and Temporal Study of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Fish Tissue from the Delaware River and Bay (pdf 865 KB)

The American Fisheries Society is the world's largest and oldest organization dedicated to fisheries science and conservation.