On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:27:55 -0700 (PDT), James > wrote:

>Would you eat fish you caught from your local rivers?
>
>In the 60's I had a bit of an eel from the Hudson River in NYC. It
>had a gasoline smell to it. Don't know if that's natural or if it was
>really polluted.


I expecxt it's pollution. The Michigan DNR recomends that children under the age of 13
and women of child bearing age not eat fish caught in the inland lakes and rivers at
all.

The main pollutants seem to be lead, mercury, trichlorethane, acetone and PCB's. Good
stuff Maynerd.