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They don't eat them because they taste like Scott's weed & feed turf builder!

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What is the real truth?As long as you can get people to believe you it is gospel! BULL SHIT!!

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The general public can easily swallow the story of 'predatory fish chasing the bunker' into the shallow lallow shalla lallows where they die from lack of oxygen. But IF the news story read "Sometimes there's this poison that runs off the green grass lawns and kills millions of fish" well now you have a conspiratheory (just made that word up).

Just remember, if you yell Barracuda - everybody says huh? what???> But you yell Shark!> and you have a damn panic on your hands on the 4th of July.

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I often wonder how many people have health issues which are never linked to bass that winter over in the Hudson, Newark Bay, Arthur Kill etc. when they're caught in the spring in Sandy Hook or along the coast during their northerly migration. Funny how often I hear people say you'd have to be crazy eating anything from that entire ecosystem but you know they're being consumed when they leave their wintering grounds. I'm sure some will say as long as you get all the red meat off the fillet they're fine, that's where toxins are stored in the body fat. Any fish swimming around in the waters off the turnpike while they have my utmost respect, don't have enough red meat to cut off to the extent I'd consume them.

Dan I'm not familiar with the location from the picture in your post. Any chance that area froze up (brackish water) during the winter and the kill happened earlier but wasn't noticed until ice out. Might explain why the gulls didn't feast on them if they weren't accessible.

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2x
Too much urban development going on!
Wherever they can plow down the trees or where there once was a farm and fields they are building homes.
The old Bamm Hollow Golf course and the Bell Labs in Holmdel and anywhere that they can put a house or townhouses just to name a few.
The ecosystem cannot filter it .
But the keep building And create a NEW TAX for us.
Oh boy really didn’t want to go there.
Stop building!

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The bass were fine migrating up from North Carolina and Virginia but as soon as they turned the Point of Sandy Hook they are not edible.Use to hear that all the time.Total bs

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I wouldn’t eat anything out of the Hudson/east river. Yes fish migrate but some don’t leave. Damage was done 100 years ago to our waters in urban areas and I personally recommend eating anything north of the VZ bridge.

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I wasn't implying that at all BUT you can't argue there's fish that winter over in highly polluted waters being harvested when they start their spring migration. If people choose to consume them or not that's their personal choice.

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So one day the stripers are by the Statue of Liberty and the next day they are by Hoffmans Island?