{"id":125358,"date":"2026-05-14T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/officials-debate-whether-fort-pecks-fish-are-too-polluted\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:00:44","modified_gmt":"2028-10-30T05:00:44","slug":"officials-debate-whether-fort-pecks-fish-are-too-polluted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/14\/officials-debate-whether-fort-pecks-fish-are-too-polluted\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Officials Debate Whether Fort Peck\u2019s Fish Are Too Polluted"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montanans who regularly eat fish harvested from some of the state\u2019s most popular angling destinations may want to reconsider their diet. State agencies are directing people to limit their consumption  of certain fish species  found in the state\u2019s rivers and reservoirs contaminated with PFAS, a class of chemicals  linked to cancers and other serious health risks.<br \/>\n\t  On April 23, a trio of state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125463,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125358\/revisions\/125463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125358"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}