"Advisory" means a Departmental warning to limit consumption
of designated fish species taken from designated regions of the State's
waters.
"Closure" or "closed" means prohibition of sales of
designated fish species taken from designated regions of the State's
waters.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of
Environmental Protection.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental
Protection.
"Limited consumption" or "limit consumption" means that in
order to reduce exposure to and bioaccumulation of PCBs, persons of high risk,
including but not limited to pregnant women, nursing mothers, women of
child-bearing age, and young children, should not eat any designated fish
species taken from designated regions of the State's waters and all other
persons should not consume more than one meal per week of any designated fish
taken from designated regions of the State's waters.
"Northeast Region" means the region encompassing the New
Jersey portion of Sandy Hook and Raritan Bay; the tidal portions of the Raritan
River upstream to the Route 1 Bridge in New Brunswick; the Arthur Kill and
Newark Bay; the Passaic River upstream to the Dundee Dam; the Hackensack River
up to Oradel Dam; the Kill Van Kull and Upper New York Bay; and the Hudson
River upstream to the New Jersey-New York State border, approximately four
miles above Alpine, New Jersey.
"PCBs" means polychlorinated biphenyls.
