Hackensack river advice

[acabtp]

Originally Posted by tunanut

We also saw some blue claws swim by with the outgoing tide. Fun to catch some, and release.

just FYI the mud all through there is pretty badly contaminated with PCBs and dioxin so blue claws are closed to fishing (there is no catch & release exemption)
https://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/crab...rt-english.htm

[tunanut]

Wow, I didn’t realize you weren’t even allowed to catch them for fun! We knew that nothing was safe for consumption.