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Program focuses on API and Latino immigrant fishing communities

An EPA study (6.5 MB) found that more than 20 ethnic/language groups fish on the Duwamish River. Fishers from Asian, Pacific Islander (API), and Latino immigrant communities are catching, eating and sharing the contaminated seafood from the river. The health warning signs have not been effective in reaching fishers who speak little to no English – most of these fishers speak Vietnamese, Khmer and Spanish.

The Program focuses on reaching these multi-ethnic fishers of the Duwamish River, as well as pregnant women, nursing moms and young children who received and prepare seafood from recreational fishers.

Fishing in the Duwamish River: What did we learn and what do we do next? (519 KB)

ICIAP Executive Summary

Purpose of the ICIAP (Program Plan) (431 KB)

Appendices

Read the US EPA's full ICIAP for Seafood Consumption at the Lower Duwamish Waterway (LDW) Superfund Site (5.1 MB)

Community Health Advocate Training Curriculum 

Based on the Community Health Worker/Promotor Model, where peer health workers reach out to communities that historically face barriers to accessing resources and services, Public Health's training builds on the CHAs' strengths, cultural expertise and self-empowerment, while increasing their capacity (knowledge and skills) to promote healthy seafood consumption actions in their communities.

US EPA's Duwamish Seafood Consumption Institutional Controls Program Community Health Advocate Training Curriculum 2.0 (8.7 MB) 

Materials

Washington Healthy Fish Guide for supermarkets

Take this card with you next time you are buying seafood at your local market. Many health choices for everyone in the green column. If you are pregnant or nursing, a young child (under 6 years old), and someone who plan to have kids, do not eat the seafood in the red column, "AVOID". If you are not one of these sensitive groups, you can eat from the red column. If you do, choose fish from the green column for the rest of the month.


Washington Healthy Fish Guide for Supermarkets

Sami's Fishing Adventures on the Duwamish River

Download and print a coloring book with puzzles.

Sami’s Fishing Adventures on the Duwamish River - Coloring Book and Puzzles

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