If you thought catching fish off the West Side Highway and eating it for dinner sounded too good to be true, you may have been right.
State health officials updated fish consumption advisories earlier this week, and relaxed some restrictions on the lower Hudson River, from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in the Catskills to the Battery in Lower Manhattan. The advisory update is due to declining levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in the fish.
But the environmental group Riverkeeper says the cleanup has a long way to go and the public should continue to be wary of eating from the river…