Seattle's Duwamish River is impacted by contaminated sediments from a century of urban and industrial waste and was listed as a federal Superfund Site in 2001. The river also suffers from ongoing toxic pollution from untreated stormwater and combined sewer overflows. Despite posted fish consumption advisories, many people continue to fish in the Duwamish River in order to put dinner on the table and to maintain their cultural traditions. The majority of Duwamish River seafood consumers are low-income and/or homeless fishermen; tribal members (many from Tribes with treaty rights to harvest fish and seafood from the river); and Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant families for whom fishing and seafood harvesting is deeply rooted in cultural traditions that are important both to subsistence and to family and community cohesion. Many of the river's fishermen fall into more than one of these categories (e.g., low-income/immigrant fishing communities), and report that they are harvesting fish to bring home to their families, including children and women of childbearing age whose health is most at risk from the PCBs, arsenic, dioxins and other toxins present at high levels in the river's fish.

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