Aquaculture and wild-caught fish are not one occurrence pool

The controlling scientific record is the public Heavy Metal Index synthesis, supported by 3 named anchor sources and expressed for Methylmercury, Mercury, Cadmium, Lead, Arsenic.

ICS does not reproduce the source extraction here. Keeping the evidence on the independent index preserves source-level methods, units, species, basis, uncertainty, and review state. This note records only the institutional consequence of that evidence.

Record production method and species in fish evidence, stratify occurrence summaries, and prevent a lower farmed-fish distribution from masking higher-risk wild predator categories.

This disposition may change taxonomy, analyte coverage, test basis, surveillance priority, disclosure, or claim language. It does not allow a market occurrence percentile or a dramatic single study to become an initial certification value.

The finding is published in two additional authority layers: the HMI evidence record and the HMTc certification interpretation. Distribution should prioritize seafood suppliers, laboratories, retailers, regulators while preserving those distinct roles in headlines, briefings, interviews, and social posts.