> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>

The Gowanus Canal in NYC is so polluted that local scientists believe that
they can use samplings from the water to invent new medications.