There’s plenty of fish in the waters of New Jersey, along with lots of other things: mercury, polychlorobiphenyls and dioxin, among them.
And according to a former governor, there could be some danger in eating fish from Garden State waters.
"Many types of fish and shellfish from waters across the state are labeled unsafe to eat," Jim Florio wrote in a Dec. 14 guest column in The Star-Ledger about how new reductions in mercury pollution will protect New Jerseyans from contaminated seafood.
It turns out Florio wasn’t exactly telling a fish tale, PolitiFact New Jersey found.
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