{"id":187480,"date":"2026-04-06T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:27:22","slug":"you-can-eat-fish-caught-in-new-yorks-hudson-river-for-the-first-time-in-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187480\/","title":{"rendered":"You can eat fish caught in New York’s Hudson River for the first time in 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York State Department of Health on Thursday shared updated guidance on eating fish you catch<\/a>, and it includes a major change for the Hudson River.<\/p>\n

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For the first time in 50 years, the department says everyone can now eat \u201csome fish\u201d from the Lower Hudson River \u2014 that covers Rip Van Winkle Bridge in Catskill to the southern tip of Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time in 50 years, everyone in the family can now eat some fish from the Lower Hudson River,\u201d said Audrey Van Genechten, one of the state health department\u2019s top fish experts.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the reason for the change? Lower levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, which is shorthand for polychlorinated byphenyls.<\/p>\n

\u201cPCB levels in some of the fish had gone down enough that we are now able to allow families \u2014 even younger women and children \u2014 to eat some of the fish,\u201d Van Genechten said.<\/p>\n

The general population can now eat up to four seafood meals a month from the lower portion of the Hudson River. The state also said anglers should stick to the striped bass; health officials do not recommend eating the carp or smallmouth bass.<\/p>\n

For some, the thought of eating anything that came from the Hudson River is enough to get chills. Just hearing about fish in the Hudson can immediately trigger images of the three-eyed fish from \u201cThe Simpsons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Health officials urge that is not the case, but do have an extra step that could provide even more preventative measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you remove the skin and fat, you can get rid of 50% of the PCBs that are left,\u201d Van Genechten said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Department of Health on Thursday shared updated guidance on eating fish you catch, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-187480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}