00:00For the first time in 50 years, New Yorkers can eat fish caught in the Hudson River,
00:05though I do not know why anyone would want to. The number of stipulations around these
00:10metropolitan fishies should still make any sane person think twice about it.
00:15After testing toxin levels in fish, state officials now say that the general population
00:20can eat up to four seafood meals per month from fish caught south of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge,
00:27that's about 30 miles below Albany, all the way down to the bottom of Manhattan.
00:31A limit of four area seafoods a month seems questionable, but okay. And there are caveats
00:39here. People under 50 who could potentially become pregnant and children under 15 are only supposed
00:44to have one eight-ounce portion per month. That right there is enough to keep me far away from any
00:49Hudson delicacies. Or as one New Yorker the Post spoke to, put it, quote,
00:55the Hudson already is one step above a sewer. They're not wrong. The types of fish you can
01:00consume is also limited. State officials said brown trout, blue crab, and striped bass are good,
01:06but carp, whitefish, and smallmouth bass, not so much. You know, nothing really gets the taste buds
01:11to sing quite like the thought of brown trout fresh from the coast of the Big Apple. Now,
01:17if you are a more adventurous eater than I, I must tell you one more thing. The state also cautions
01:22that anglers cut the skin and fat off any fish they plan to eat because it's those parts that hold
01:27on to the toxins in the water. At this point, why even say we can eat it? At best, at
01:33the very best,
01:34it feels like you probably won't, I don't know, grow a hoof if you eat fish from the Hudson now,
01:40right?
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