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The Herald Statesman YONKERS, N.Y. (NEW YORK CITY MARKET AREA) P. 4S.614 FEB 20 1976 * ^Fishermen ; map war . on PCB's By JENNIE TRITTEN Staff Writer * /The Yonkers Chapter of the Hudson River Flahermen's Association last night 1 * mapped oat an extensive campaign to ban the use of polycholorinated biphenylt, i PCB's, not only in New ` YoBTSUte but nationwide. . THIS WEEK Environ ; mental Conservation Com missioner Ogden Reid ban ned virtually aD commer? . cial fishing In tba Hudson ' Rlvfer south of Fort Edward due to the PCB chemical conthninatioo. More than four years ago the HRFA alerted New York State about evidence of PCB's in the Hodson Riv er stripped bass which fell to deaf ears, according to. WIDiam O'Hara, secretary-' treasurer of the Yonkers Chapter of HRFA. : THE LOCAL chapter will ; request the state to poet signs along the Hudson Rlv[ ,er warning ftahcrmm rfbout the high concentration of f PCB's In stripped, bast and i eels which is above the lev . eia set by.the federal gov ' emment. { "We will also request '. local officials to remove all / abandoned refrigerators, 1 air eonditiooers, lighting j fixtures and television seta J from and near waterways because this is a source of . PCB contamination wbkfc has been greatly over looked " said O'Hara. ACCORDING to a roeont report given the'Save the Hudeon Coalition, a group of 7R local environmental lead en from this area tadudiag HRFA, "PCB'i are extrmety long lived chemicals used I la the manufacture of each household appliances." HONS 033104