NY Daily News: Fishing for danger

This past weekend the NY Daily News drew attention to the problems of bioaccumulation of toxins in locally caught fish and the lack of signs with consumption warnings at popular fishing locations with three articles:

Fishing for danger: Poor people driven to catch and eat toxin-filled species

Cash-strapped New Yorkers are ignoring health warnings not to fish for their meals in polluted local waters, where the catch of the day comes laced with cancer-causing PCBs and mercury.

Casting at own peril: Tainted fish could harm granny's 'angel'

Mary Sapp wouldn't do anything to harm her darling granddaughter, 6-year-old Kiana. But at least once a week, the Brooklyn woman gives the little girl a serving of striped bass plucked from the polluted waters off the gritty Canarsie Pier.

No sign of threat: Don't expect gov't to issue warning of dangerous fishing.

Want to know how much fish is safe to eat from polluted local waters? Good luck.