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Old 11-14-2021, 12:35 PM
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Default Re: Passaic River Walleye 11/12/21

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Originally Posted by dakota560 View Post
The Passaic has really turned into quite a success story. Still facing challenges with pollution's like all systems running through populated urban areas are, the number of species it supports, quality of those species and amount of bait is pretty amazing. Pretty remarkable transformation.
The lower/tidal Passaic is still pretty bad. They're still trying to figure out how to handle all the dioxane in the sediments. A proper cleanup would likely run into the billions.

The fish consumption advisories for the tidal Passaic and Newark Bay are... extensive.

https://www.nj.gov/dep/dsr/fishadvisories/marine.htm
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