GOWANUS, NY — The federal government plans to install signs warning intrepid fishers about the dangers of eating a dinner caught from the filthy depths of the Gowanus Canal, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which is overseeing the cleanup of the waterway, will install a dozens of signs near the best fishing spots around the canal after a community group asked for them, the paper reported.

"We ask that such warnings be placed in reasonably likely fishing locations and at each public-access location where people can easily make physical contact with the canal," the Gowanus Community Advisory Group wrote in the a letter to the EPA, according to the Brooklyn Paper.