Hudson River Stripers

[Spare Spool]

Watched part of the Hudson River special on PBS. Truly disgusting what GE has done. The former CEO for GE still claims that there isn't enough evidence to prove that PCB's are carcinogenic and harmful to living organisms. What?! That is too frightening.

From what the special was saying unless I misunderstood (I only watched a part of it) was that it is illegal to fish for stripers commercially in the Hudson because of PCB concerns. Wouldn't this mean that recreational anglers shouldn't keep stripers out of the Hudson as well? Also, since stripers are migratory, I would assume that it would be possible and somewhat likely that we catch some Hudson stock PCB contaminated stripers up here in New England. I guess the question is how concerned should we be about this?

Sometimes people just suck.

[schoolie monster]

Wasn't that guy a piece of work.

"There's no proof saying PCB's harm people. The river is clean."

Let's see. PCB's have been proven to cause cancer in animals in clinical tests. I guess we need some human volunteers to see if this translates over to humans. The pay's good and you don't need to worry about a retirement plan.

I said this before. Just like the tobacco industry... you can deny anything. Smoking, cancer... I have studies that say smoking is good for you.

If someone is making enough money, they will say anything or take any stance. At one point in the show Jack Welch (former CEO) was talking about how they were painted as evil... the bad guys.

Let's look at this chronologically.

They polluted the river. Bad.
They spent $millions on lawyers to keep the right to continue polluting the river. Bad.
They polluted the river some more. Bad.
They denied responsibility and denied the pollution was actually harmful. Bad.
They spent more $millions on lawyers to keep from having to clean up the river. Bad.
They spent more $millions on ad campaigns and lobbyist to try and convince people the pollution was not there, not harmful, and that they should not have to clean it up. Bad.
They continue to pollute to this day, if I understood correctly (or at least till recently). Bad.

GE... we bring good things to light.

I missed the special regarding the overfishing... no doubt that would have been equally uplifting. I think it was called "empty oceans, empty nets"

Anyone know when that might be on again?

Anyways, Eugene, I was thinking the same thing about the migratory striper population. We get bass from the Chesapeak and the Hudson, is that right? Most of these things are commulative and a result of years of ingestion. There is a list out there of species of fish you shouldn't eat more than a couple times per week or something like that. Anyway, as a grown adult eating striper only occasionally, I doubt I need to worry too much, but I'm sure not gonna feed my daughter striper 2x a week for the whole summer.

Of course, I doubt I would catch enough fish to do that anyway

[nightfighter]

A friend of mine, who worked on the wall of hot steel fired from the aircraft known as Puff the Magic Dragon, was fond of saying he worked for a division of GE that DIDN'T bring good things to life!

[Mal Greene]

Guess what guys, not only are pcb's a big time scare,up here in Maine the dept. of fisheries and wildlife recomend only one meal of striper per month due to dangerously high levels of mercury in our fish. Than k you paper industry. I do enjoy an occasional meal of fresh caught striper, but is it worth the risk? To bad we humans are such slobs and environment killers. Life must have been better before the industrial revolution, at least environmentally. Mal

[westhavendave]

Guys, CT has the same warnings about eating stripers and large bluefish. The ironic thing is that Jack Welch owns a huge mansion on great point in nantucket, probably one of the greatest striper spots on the east coast. Maybe he is eating a few a week from his beach now that he is retired. If you ever drive to the end of great point his house is the last one. Dave