Stripers added to the do not eat list in D C.

[Castaway]

http://wjla.com/news/local/dc-to-loc...t-our-rockfish

[NoLimit]

There used to be a lot of PCBs, DDT, etc everywhere in the 50's and 60's and people were living longer than ever. There is some speculation that they never proved they were actually harming people. It might be just like all the other scares like fracking, paraquat, swine flu and who knows what.

http://www.eco-imperialism.com/myths...cts-about-ddt/

[PaBeerGuy]

Originally Posted by NoLimit

There used to be a lot of PCBs, DDT, etc everywhere in the 50's and 60's and people were living longer than ever. There is some speculation that they never proved they were actually harming people. It might be just like all the other scares like fracking, paraquat, swine flu and who knows what.

http://www.eco-imperialism.com/myths...cts-about-ddt/

I'll never try smoking a striper but no problem eating one. They're hard to light up anyway.

[Striper80]

Maybe that will hurt the commercial market down south for them.

[shrimpman steve]

Number one, that was a sickly looking striper

Number two, a very interesting read on DDT. REMINDS ME OF GLOBAL WARMING. Just another political agenda

[NoLimit]

Thats right - after fearing all the doom and gloomers over the past 50 years, I can not recall any of them that came out correct. People I know made themselves sick worrying about drinking whole milk of butter or a steak and now we know it is all BS

[Gerry Zagorski]

The Potomac is a practically a cesspool. I would not eat anything out of it just like I wouldn't eat anything out of Elizabeth/Newark Bay.

That does not mean Stripers in all areas are unfit for consumption... It means resident Stripers that stay in Potomac areas are not fit for consumption.

[joemont]

Originally Posted by NoLimit

There used to be a lot of PCBs, DDT, etc everywhere in the 50's and 60's and people were living longer than ever. There is some speculation that they never proved they were actually harming people. It might be just like all the other scares like fracking, paraquat, swine flu and who knows what.

http://www.eco-imperialism.com/myths...cts-about-ddt/

just curious paraquat , and fracking aren't real scares?

[Reel Class]

The Potomac has historically been a cess pool. Similar to the upper Hackensack, Passaic, and Raritan Rivers!

[bulletbob]

Originally Posted by Reel Class

The Potomac has historically been a cess pool. Similar to the upper Hackensack, Passaic, and Raritan Rivers!

Yet the Passaic teems with Pike and black bass, all notoriously clean water species that need good oxygen content.. The Raritan has been going great guns with trout and smallies for years and Walleyes are more common every year.
The Hacky is loaded with fish these days.. A damn Sheepshead was caught there last year.... Same with the Hudson, simply loaded with fish of all species, and people eat them all te time...
The "cess pool "status you allocated to the rivers in question was well deserved , until the 80's.. The turnaround has been slow, but steady, and compared to what I knew as a young man in NJ, has been dramatic...
Much of the pcp and chemical pollution is under decades of sediment, and will stay there hopefully.. I was unable to fish the Passaic as a kid. There were NO fish except eels and killies.Same with the Hacky..The Passaic is now one of the premier Pike fisheries on the east coast, and the Hacky yields 25 pound stripers to urban fishermen in relative isolation. I am very hopeful for the rivers you mentioned. They get cleaner and more productive each year.... bob