{"id":752444,"date":"2026-04-25T15:35:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752444\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:35:24","slug":"nyc-man-likes-eating-sushi-he-caught-in-the-hudson-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752444\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man likes eating sushi he caught in the Hudson River"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Queens fisherman thinks he knows the best spot in NYC for fresh sushi and sashimi<\/a>, and it\u2019s not Nobu.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s \u2014 don\u2019t gag \u2014 The Hudson River.<\/p>\n

Gilberto Diaz Jr. enjoys eating striped bass sashimi he catches himself in the murky waters, and has been doing so for years.<\/p>\n

Gilberto Diaz Jr. enjoys eating sushi from the Hudson. J.C. Rice for NY Post<\/p>\n

Diaz has been fishing in the Hudson since he was a child. pierfishingnewyork\/ Instagram<\/p>\n

He began making Hudson sushi in 2014 as a lark.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was experimenting at first, to be honest. I know striped bass is used as sashimi; flounder and blackfish are used as sashimi. So I just started trying it and enjoyed it,\u201d he told The Post.<\/p>\n

Diaz, 35, who manages a Manhattan parking garage when he\u2019s not chasing monster tautog, detailed his methodical process of preparing the peculiar dish.<\/p>\n

First, he puts his catch out of its misery by stabbing it through its brain. <\/p>\n

Once the fish had moved on to the next world, Diaz will filet the fish from gill to tail, following the spine. He then flips the filet, scales down, and skins it before cutting quarter-inch sushi slices. <\/p>\n

He said the trick to cutting perfect sushi slices is to first filet horizontally and then vertically at precisely the right angle.<\/p>\n

\u201dIt takes practice, but I\u2019m used to it, so I\u2019m pretty good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Striped bass sashimi from the Hudson. pierfishingnewyork\/ Instagram<\/p>\n

He then drizzles lemon on the sushi and dips it in soy sauce.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Hudson sushi were served in a Japanese restaurant, they would prepare it more professionally than me, but otherwise nobody would know the difference,\u201d he boasted.<\/p>\n

Diaz said some of his favorite fishing spots on the Hudson include Dyckman Pier in Inwood, and Battery Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve caught striped bass, white perch . . . catfish, black sea bass, blackfish, eels. There\u2019s a lot of eels in the Hudson,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he\u2019s eaten sushi and ceviche from fish he caught off Jones Beach and Captree State Park in Long Island too.<\/p>\n

Diaz has been hooked on fishing in The Big Apple<\/a> since he was 3 years old, when his father, a fire safety director, would take him on party boats in Sheepshead Bay.<\/p>\n

The angler grew up in Washington Heights, and said his father would frequently take him to fish on the Hudson \u2014 but they never ate what they caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack then, early 2000s, the waters weren\u2019t as clean as they are now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He began eating stripers from the Hudson about 15 years ago after seeing dolphins chasing herring and striped bass in the river and took it as a \u201csign from God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDolphins and whales were coming closer, so it\u2019s a good sign the water is getting cleaner,\u201d he thought.<\/p>\n

He also fishes the East River, but \u201cthe current runs stronger there, it\u2019s a little bit harder to fish from land.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state Health Department cleared striped bass as safe to eat<\/a> on April 1, relaxing restrictions on the lower Hudson for the first time in 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Queens fisherman thinks he knows the best spot in NYC for fresh sushi and sashimi, and it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,9251,5232,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,24001,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-752444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fish","tag-hudson-river","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sushi","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116466085107744302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}