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Federal Government Issues Warnings on Consumption of Fish from Texas Waters.

By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 5--An isolated lake on the windswept plains of the Panhandle, the liquid heart of a state park, and a fishing spot in the midst of a national forest in East Texas are the latest places where contamination has led to limits or bans on eating fish.

The new fish consumption warnings, issued by the federal government on Wednesday, were among 348 advisories placed on lakes, rivers and coastal waters by states in 2002. Since 1993, the number of advisories nationwide has been on the

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