Hudson River Bass

[MakoMike]

FWIW, NY state tries to prevent any Hudson river fish from entering the food chain, by prohibiting commercial striped bass fishing west of a point on central LI. The theory is that most of the Hudson river fish stay within 50 miles of the river.

[Fly Rod]

Concentrations of PCB's in striped bass not good for women in their child bearing years or kids....stripers along the east coast contain both groups from the Chesapeake Bay and Hudson River area as far north of Maine and southern Canada.

http://www.clearwater.org/pcbs/slideshow/slide26.html

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/blog/po...chesapeake_bay

[zimmy]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

FWIW, NY state tries to prevent any Hudson river fish from entering the food chain, by prohibiting commercial striped bass fishing west of a point on central LI. The theory is that most of the Hudson river fish stay within 50 miles of the river.

Old outdated study is where the 50 miles number comes from.
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[Cool Beans]

Easy way to look at it, is "would you allow your children to swim in that water?"

If you think the water is too polluted to swim in, then it is a good rule to not eat fish that live there.

[afterhours]

Originally Posted by MakoMike

FWIW, NY state tries to prevent any Hudson river fish from entering the food chain, by prohibiting commercial striped bass fishing west of a point on central LI. The theory is that most of the Hudson river fish stay within 50 miles of the river.

might be the case now but 25 yrs ago we used to catch Hudson river fish in ri and ma.

[Fly Rod]

As we all know stripers spawn in brackest water in the Hudson around the months of May and June there after the adults migrate to the atlantic ocean...there is no way that the state can prevent them from going up the coast to where some fishermen commercial fish for stripers....