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PEEKSKILL, N.Y. STAR (MW TOM CITY MARKET AREA) R. 13,039 FEB 1 6 1976 r .. - Area fishermen to hear Reid on river pollution / The effects ef the in- duslrlal pollutant polychlorinated byphenyls ipCBis) on Hudeon River commercial fishing will be discussed by New York SUte's Environmental Conservntlon Commissioner Ogden Retd tommorrow morning el St. Mery's School In Peekaklll. Reid will be meeting with commerclei fishermen from the lower Hudson River erne, et 1) e.m. In the old ' gymnsslum et St. Mery's School. Reid Is expected to errlve by helicopter shortly before the lets morning meeting. _ .. . In September, Reid mode the storming disclosure that PCB's being discharged Into the Hudson River by General Electric plants et Tort Edwtrd and Hudson Fells, heve mode Hudson River fish inedible In some cnees end demoge done to the river by the PCB's Is "serious If not Inoperable " The PCB's sre leftovers In the manufacture of electric capacltators, and according to Rled they heve been discharged Into the Hudeon River for the pest 21 years. General Electric has resisted the state's attempts to halt the discharge of PCB's Into the Hudson River. The PCB question la still undecided, and Is being battled out In the courts. Reid staled In September that fish taken downriver from the GE plants had more than 30 times the amount of PCB's In their tissue than the U S Food and Drug Administration seys is sole for humsn consumption. The warning was Issued not to eat more than one serving of Hudson River fish per week, and even less quantities of striped bass. This apparently would significantly curtail the river's fishing Industry. GE has claimed that over the past few years It has significantly reduced Its PCB discharged Into the river, and it had further stated that the new kind of PCB's now being used are M per cent more easily degradable. Following his meeting with the fishermen tom morrow Reid Is expected to attend another meeting with commercial fishermen at Bard College at Annandaleon-the-Hudaon. MONS 033085