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Originally Posted by tradingfrank27
So does this mean the stripers that roam in that area in the spring will be the same group of fish people catch and eat in bay?
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Pretty much.
As far as I can decipher from the Department of Environmental Protection's brochure "Fish Smart, Eat Smart", they recommend the general population eat no more than one meal per month of striped bass from estuarine or marine waters. Children, pregnant women, nursing women and women of childbearing age are advised to completely avoid striped bass.
They only specific instructions I can find for tidal Passaic River is for shellfish from Garfield to Newark Bay and that's an absolute 'do not touch!' applying to everybody - so I wouldn't assume the fish there are less contaminated.
If we learned anything from 9/11 when the EPA assured everyone that the air at ground zero was safe to breathe; it's if the government tells you it's bad - it's probably a lot worse.
http://www.nj.gov/dep/dsr/fishadviso...advisories.pdf
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