Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping As Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify (radical, retire)
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BP Oil...when they dumped billions of gallons of crude into the Gulf Of Mexico via the big leak....did not clean up the oil..They just swept it under the carpet..The use chemicals to sink the oil and the stupid idea that bacteria naturally break up and destroy crude oil is lunacy.
Out of sight and out of mind don't cut it. This poison is still in the gulf and tiny bits of it will be absorbed by sea life....They should have taken the time to clean up every drop while it was floating..but they took the cheap way out...
IIRC, Obama said he wouldn't rest until the spill was cleaned up.
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Originally Posted by Kracer
Premature conclusion based on speculation of anecdotal information.
Maybe be something to to it maybe not.
I'd look at precedent and ask where other spills occurred and what happened to the local fisheries. Haven't heard of deformities associated with other oil spills. So why would this spill be different?
Don't forget the big flood a few years ago that washed God knows what into the Gulf. How do you differentiate deformities due to different sources? I'm sure it can be done and will be done but early associations with the oil spill may be hysterical.
the difference is that the bp oil leak was ten time worse than the others. and they sprayed 2 million gallons of corexit to sink the oil
Op, when were YOU planning to post the correction and correct the title if this thread?
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CORRECTION: On April 21, ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, which covers Pensacola, Moblie and Fort Walton, reported on its website that some areas of the Gulf were being closed on the morning of April 23 due to concerns over the presence of smaller-than-normal shrimp and shrimp with “lesions.” That report was in line with a multitude of other recent mainstream media reports – from the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others (see links to articles at bottom) – of severely deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico. The deformities –confirmed by local fishermen, seafood processors and scientists alike – include shrimp with no eyes, shrimp with tumors, red snapper and grouper with deep lesions and underdeveloped blue crabs without claws (see video below).
We picked up the WEAR-TV report and published an April 23 post entitled, “Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping as Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify.” Unfortunately, the WEAR-TV report turned out to be incorrect. The ABC affiliate has pulled the initial report and replaced it with this correction dated April 25:
Alabama – The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has temporarily closed some local waterways to shrimping. The waters were closed to shrimping on Monday.
The areas include all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay, and Little Lagoon.
The closure is in response to routine shrimp sampling that indicated the average size were smaller than 68 head-on shrimp per pound. Meaning biologists found smaller than average shrimp in the waters causing the temporary closure. They will continue to take samples in these areas and determine any modifications to the closures.
And we’d like to clarify that the closures were not due to lesions being found on shrimp as we reported earlier this weekend and Monday morning.
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