"Richard Periut" > wrote in message
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> Hi all and greetings,
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> When I was a teen (about 25 years ago,) I used to fish the Hudson River
> on the Hoboken bank.
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> The fish were mostly eels, and an occasional stripped bass. They tasted
> like oil, and so did the crabs. The local bums and my cat used to
> cherish them.
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> Recently, a friend of mine told me that he pulls in 5 and sometimes 10
> pound striped bass, which he says taste great. What bothers me the most,
> is that he states that the river has been cleaned up, and that the fish
> taste great.

I believe most of the dioxin is from the old releases from the GE
transformer plant. The last I read about it they were considering extensive
dredging of the river bottom but opposing thoughts say that may make a
bigger mess.

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> I vaguely heard that consumption should be limited to one serving per
> week, because of Dioxin levels? Then again, other fresh water fish have
> been implicated regardless of location.
>
> Anyone have any knowledge regarding this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard

Hudson River South of Catskill, Arthur Kill, Kill Van Kull and Upper Bay of
New York Harbor (North of Verrazano Narrows Bridge)


a.. Eat no gizzard shad.
b.. Eat no more than one meal per month of American eel, Atlantic
needlefish, bluefish, brown bullhead, carp, channel catfish, goldfish,
largemouth and smallmouth bass, rainbow smelt, striped bass, walleye, white
catfish and white perch and eat no more than one meal per week of other fish
species.
c.. Eat no more than six blue crabs per week and don't consume the
hepatopancreas (mustard, tomalley, liver) or cooking liquid.

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> "'Who knows for certain? Who shall here declare it?
> Whence was it born, whence came creation?
> The gods are later than this world's formation;
> Who then can know the origins of the world?
> None knows whence creation arose;
> And whether he has or has not made it;
> He who surveys it from the lofty skies.
> Only he knows-or perhaps he knows not.'
> And this is tempered by another, perhaps still greater:
> That men are not the dreams of the gods but that the gods are the
> dreams of men."
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> The Rig Veda
> Circa 1500 B.C.
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