West Virginia regulators have begun warning state residents not to eat fish from certain waterways.

The state Bureau for Public Health recommends that people eat only one meal per month of any sport fish caught from Mount Storm Lake in Grant County, Upper Mud Lake in Lincoln County and Pinnacle Creek in Wyoming County because of high levels of selenium pollution.

People should have no more than two meals per month of Rock Bass caught in any stream in the state because of high levels of mercury.

Studies have shown that mountaintop removal coal mining releases selenium into streams.

Coal-fired power plants spew mercury into the air and it settles out into streams.