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mMTiSlKILL m r. mm market mn U. 4.0011 FEB 2 6 1976 <& Spring-run Herring Expected to be Safe by ANNABAR JEN8IS for functional symptoms In plan on correcting the situation. ALBANY River area Japan. Toxic manifestations Hearings will be resumed on residents who enjoy netting are definitely toown, he said. remedies as soon as GE comes barring (luring the spring run He also said no one knows or ig> with e plan, he said. for pickling or other eating h willing to fuses how long the Bo Con has banned com tooud be rdieved to know that river will be off-limits to mercial fishing except for shad U should be safe to do so despite fishermen. "PCB'i are per- and sturgeon, because no the presence of toxic detent diemicel," he said. adequate data can be collected polychlorinated biphenyls in the He suggeried that people who until the nm starts. river, because herring spend plan on eating herring from the most of their life In the sea and river get in touch with EnOon En Con said the order to- enter the Hudson only to spawn. people who are doing the dudes barring bid dose not Dr. David Axelrod, drector of monitoring of flto. There is an apply to individuals, although the Infections Disease Center of BnCon monitoring station In there is prohibition against the State Health Dept., whose Catskttl where fish are taken selling fito taken from the office has been put in charge of from the river and studied. river. Commissioner Ogden PCB-rdated material, said this He said communities taking Reid, be said, "feels you should week (hat herring, like toad, drinking water from the river not eat any fito from the river, have their major growth in the face no problem because the including eels." He also said U ocean and for that reason do not araouit of PCB in the water is oould conceivably be dangerous absorb so much of the PCB's. only one part per billion; in fish, to pots, thus eliminating the Hie State has banted an however, It is several humfred thrifty vactive of angling for Ashing north of Troy and all parts per million. Fito it alga on Puss's inner commercial fishing, except for the bottom where the materiel McManus said the impact of toad, soith of K. The reason is is concentrated and the PCB's PCB's on humans is not wed- the PGB's which continue to be pm on up throuto tbo food documented yet. It can in wed into the river each day chain, Dr. Axelrod said. terfere with the reproductive General Electric plants. process and cause miscarriages Axelrod explained that both DUMPING CONTINUE! ' in mink, he said; it can also be the Health! Dept, and the En Bob McMarnn of fin Con said cancer producing to rats and la vironmental Conservation have a hearing oflflcv for Bn Coo toxic to aquatic life. been working closely in the PCB issued a prdiminary report The question of reparations case. PCB'i can cause skin finding GE in violation of En by the company will be brou0t diseases and have been Mamed Cba law, and asking the firm to out at future hearings, he said. \ HONS 032859