Updated fish consumption advisories have been released by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for 2006.

The blanket one fish meal a week advisory was reissued, with the following exceptions. DEP has lifted the do-not-eat chlordane advisory for white bass on the Cheat Lake River from the dam to the mouth, and on the Monongahela River from Point Marion to Grays Landing lock and dam.

A one meal a week mercury advisory has been changed to two meals a week for walleye in the Allegheny River from the Warren/Forest county line to the confluence of Tubbs Run.

DEP has issued a do-not-eat PCB advisory for brook trout, a six-meals-per-year advisory for rainbow and brown trout in the Schuylkill River from the confluence of Mill Creek to the Auburn Dam, and a one meal a month PCB advisory for smallmouth bass on the Beaver River from the confluence of the Mahoning and Shenango rivers to the New Brighton Dam.

There is a new two meal a month mercury advisory for walleye on the Eaton Reservoir in Erie County. For more information , visit www.fish.state.pa.us or www.depweb.state.pa.us.

Trail date set

A trial date in the Commonwealth lawsuit against Don Beaver and the Spring Ridge Club over access to the Little Juniata River has been set for June 12-16 in Huntingdon County common pleas court.

The date was set at a pre-trial conference Monday. The Pennsylvania departments of environmental protection and conservation and natural resources, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and tackle shop owner Allan Bright are challenging Beaver's efforts to keep the public off a 1.3 mile stretch of the Little Juniata he claims is private and can only be fished by club members.

The plaintiffs claim the Little Juniata is navigable and, so, should be open to the public.

Indian Creek update

The Mountain Watershed Association has expressed its opposition to a prospective limestone quarry on Indian Creek in Fayette County in the hope the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will reject a permit request by New Enterprise Stone and Lime Company.

The watershed association opposes New Enterprise's seven-year long effort to build the mine because it believes the company has failed to demonstrate that its water management plan wouldn't harm the stream's wild trout, according to the association's attorney Howard Wein.

DEP is expected to decide the permit request by early next year. If it issues the permit, Wein said, his clients probably would appeal the decision.