Posted on 06/02/2015 10:12:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
MYFOXNY.COM/AP -
The fish is not for eating. That's what Newark officials are saying to residents about the fish that have washed onto the streets following recent flooding.
The fish were caught or found in flooded sewers, rivers, streams, and ponds after heavy rains doused the city.
The alert was issued Monday by the city's Health and Community Wellness Department.
Officials urged people to not trap, catch or eat any fish caught on the streets because it's unclear how "exposure to elements outside of their natural domains will affect them."
There are several ponds and lakes in the region where fishing is permitting.
Fish were caught or found in flooded sewers, rivers, streams, and ponds after heavy rains doused Newark, New Jersey. (NEWS 12 NJ photo)
Someone would actually eat them? I might sell it, but I wouldn’t eat it! LOL.
I’m not sure who in their right mind would eat these fish...but then again, when I was a child in NYC and the Hudson was so polluted it stank and you literally saw sewage floating by, there were always people down there on the waterfront fishing.
The only thing they ever caught was eels, because that was all that could live there, but their buckets were full of writhing eels when they left and I assume they ate them. It was a nasty thought, even then, and we kids would look into the buckets mostly to scare ourselves.
“Officials urged people to not trap, catch or eat any fish caught on the streets”
That’s a fine piece of writing.
Something tells me that the residents of the Murder Capital of The Northeast, do not eat fish.
You catch the eels to use as bait to catch fish elsewhere...................
Fith goood.
Are these dead fish laying in the street? Who in their right mind has to warn people not to eat a dead fish.
If they are alive and swimming in a pool somewhere, what difference dies it make if you catch them in that pool by hand or go fishing in the dirty, sewage filled lake.
In Colorado, in some of the steep, narrow river canyons that come out of the mountains, there are signs posted that say “In Case of Flash Flood, Climb to Safety”.
As far as I know, countless lives have been saved by these signs.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, flood the streets and he won’t need FEMA.
Carp.
AKA: Sewer Trout
I had the lasagna.
The real reason is that these fish are on the menu for Michelle O’s school lunch program.
These fish are made for eating,
And that’s just that they’ll do:
One of these days, these fish
Are gonna eat up all of you...
Does Newark have large immigrant population?
GAAK...!
We have Walking Catfish here in Florida....................
I guess in Nurk they need to be told this.
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