Michael Hill of the Associated Press reports in The Daily Freeman that a report by the Hudson River Natural Resources Trustees says that prolonged contamaination from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have severely harmed fish in the Hudson River. There's currently a $2 billion Superfund cleanup project from when General Electric discharged 1.3 million pounds of PCBs into the river north of Albany from the 1940s until 1977. “The public’s use of the Hudson River fishery, whether for a livelihood, a source of recreational enjoyment, or for nutrition, has been and continues to be severely curtailed,” the trustees’ report says. There have been restrictions on fish consumption from the river since 1975, with recreational fishing prohibited from 1976 until 1995 north of Albany. But the report also notes the contamination has hurt fish south of Albany too. “GE is fully engaged in one of the largest and most comprehensive environmental dredging and restoration projects in U.S. history, the explicit goal of which is to reduce the PCB levels in fish,” company spokesman Mark Behan said in an email. Read the full story in The Daily Freeman.