N.J. Admin. Code § 7:25-18A.3 - Definitions
"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.
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