On Aug 3, 8:27*pm, 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.

Never. Especially now, when flood waters still abound in our rivers.
I might eat trout from a trout stream, but that's about it. Iowa has
some of the worst waterways (pollution-wise) in the country, mostly
because of the agribusiness and corporate factory farms.

N.