Researchers at Cornell University Report Findings in Risk Management (Effects of an Advisory Brochure on Fish Consumption of Urban Anglers in the…

Researchers at Cornell University Report Findings in Risk Management (Effects of an Advisory Brochure on Fish Consumption of Urban Anglers in the Great Lakes Region)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- A new study on Risk Management is now available. According to news reporting originating in Ithaca, New York, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Past research has suggested that urban anglers are a group at high risk of being exposed to contaminants from fish consumption. Fish consumption advisories have been used in many regions to encourage healthy fish-eating behaviors, but few studies have been designed to assess whether these advisories actually influence behavior as intended."

Financial support for this research came from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Cornell University, "We conducted a large-scale, randomized experiment to test the influence of an advisory brochure on urban anglers' fish consumption. We collected detailed information on anglers' fish consumption in three urban counties in the Great Lakes region in the summers of 2014 and 2015. We provided a treatment group with fish consumption guidelines in an advisory brochure before the summer of 2015 and compared their change in fish consumption to a control group. The brochure led to a reduction in fish consumption for anglers who ate the most fish; these anglers reduced their consumption of high-contaminant purchased fish (by greater than or equal to0.2 meals/summer for those in 72nd percentile of fish consumption or above), high-contaminant sport-caught fish (by greater than or equal to0.4 meals/summer for those in 87th percentile and above), and low-contaminant sport-caught fish (by greater than or equal to0.3 meals/summer by those in 76th percentile and above). The brochure also reduced sport-caught fish consumption among those anglers who exceeded the advisories in 2014 (by 2.0 meals/summer)."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "In addition, the brochure led to small increases in sport-caught fish consumption (0.4-0.6 meals/summer) in urban anglers who ate very little sport-caught fish ( less than or equal to1 meal/summer)."

For more information on this research see: Effects of an Advisory Brochure on Fish Consumption of Urban Anglers in the Great Lakes Region. Risk Analysis, 2017;38(7):1405-1421. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Risk Analysis - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1539-6924)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting T.B. Lauber, Dept. of Natural Resources, Fernow Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States. Additional authors for this research include N.A. Connelly, J. Niederdeppe and B.A Knuth.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.12953. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Ithaca, New York, United States, Risk Management, Risk and Prevention, North and Central America.

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