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

[mahigold]

i eat them out of the east river. these are the same fish that will be on the jersey shore a few days later. Tell some people its from the river they wont touch, from the shore they love it!

[shrimpman steve]

Interesting little fact. The east river is not a river at all but a tidal straight. Just a little factoid

[Gerry Zagorski]

Yep and it gets flushed 2 times a day by the tides from Lower NY Bay and the LI Sound... I would not be concerned about eating those fish.

[Capt Sal]

There was a big stink over this years ago. The higher ups decided that the stripers in Raritan Bay that were going up the Hudson to spawn were not edible. I guess they got contaminated on there trip up north from wintering off the coast of North Carolina lol More good science from our friends at NOAA

[NJ219bands]

I caught a striper at Barnegat Inlet that was tagged in the Hudson River and I tagged a striper at Barnegat Inlet that was recaptured at the Troy dam on the Hudson River in upstate, NY, when there was a health advisory for PCBs in Hudson River striped bass many years ago. I can't tell the difference between local and migratory stripers.

[1captainron]

Amazing, yet Talapia are a Chefs dream! Swill, shit eating poison with no regs on it!

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by 1captainron

Amazing, yet Talapia are a Chefs dream! Swill, shit eating poison with no regs on it!

Capt. Ron Sr has been eating ''Jersey'' fish for more than 75 years and he doesn't glow in the dark!!! lol

[ALS Mako]

the real question is how are the tests being done. from what i understand, they take a whole fish and puree it; then they use this solution for their testing. my understanding of pcbs and most toxins for that matter get trapped in the fatty areas of the body (fish or mammal). most toxins can be avoided by not eating the fatty parts of the fish ;ie. guts, skin, belly meat, dark meat. if you are are eating the white fillets- then you are pretty safe. this is just what i have been told over the years and i believe it...or i could just be talking out my arse

[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!