Letter: Risk of Fishing in the City

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To the Editor:

In painting a portrait of those who fish for their meals, "Free Dinner in the City: It Comes With a Catch, of Course" (news article, July 3) gives short shrift to the real health risks associated with eating contaminated fish, and the importance of educating subsistence anglers.

Because exposure to PCBs, dioxin and cadmium may cause permanent damage to development and reproduction, and increase the risk of developing serious illnesses including cancer, New York State advises that people, especially children under 15 and women who may bear children, should not eat most fish found in and around New York City, and as far as 200 miles up the Hudson River.

Families who need to fish for their meal should be able to, but until we have cleaned toxic sites that leach pollutants to the ecosystem, they can't do so without risk.

PAUL GALLAY
Ossining, N.Y., July 9, 2013

The writer is president of Riverkeeper, a Hudson River pollution watchdog group.

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