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Title: First Louisiana Shrimp Season Since BP Oil Spill Starts
Source: Agence France-Presse
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/First_ ... imp_season_since_08162010.html
Published: Aug 16, 2010
Author: Agence France-Presse
Post Date: 2010-08-16 13:38:22 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 42331
Comments: 74

Louisiana's first shrimping season since the BP oil disaster spewed millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico got underway Monday, but few boats took to the water and the ones that did found oil, a major shrimp wholesaler said.

"We got four boats that went out -- out of 1,400 -- and I'm hearing they're finding oil," Dean Blanchard, the largest shrimp wholesaler in the United States told AFP by phone from Grand Isle, Louisiana.

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in, and they're looking for cleaner waters," he said.

The Louisiana commission of wildlife and fisheries announced that the August shrimp season would open on schedule Monday after several government agencies gave most of the state's fishing grounds a clean bill of health, Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion Board said.

"NOAA, FDA, EPA -- all those groups have given us a clean bill of health as far as the waters that are open," said Smith, referring to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency.

"Nearly all state waters are open -- we're close to 90 percent open including part of Barataria Bay," a key shrimping ground, Smith added.

Blanchard said he had heard reports that only around 50 boats out of Louisiana's fleet of around 5,000 had taken to sea for the start of the four-month shrimping season, but it was impossible to confirm the number.

Many Louisiana fishermen were still working on the clean-up effort, for which they get paid by BP, whose rig sparked the worst environmental disaster in US history when it blew up in April and sank to the sea floor, hemorrhaging crude for more than 100 days.

The well was capped early this month, but scientists have warned that the effects of the oil that gushed from it and the dispersant used to break up the slick could contaminate Gulf seafood for years.

"Oil can release hydrogen sulfide gas and contains traces of heavy metals as well as nonvolatile polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that can contaminate the food chain," Drs Sarah Janssen and Gina Solomon wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons include "probable carcinogens" and can accumulate for years in invertebrates such as oysters, crab and shrimp, the signature seafood of the Gulf of Mexico, they warned.

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#15. To: Brian S, mcgowanjm (#0)

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in

Throw em in the Maytag on the rinse and spin cycle, and then send em to hObama. He loves GOM seafood!

Hondo68  posted on  2010-08-16   20:36:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: hondo68 (#15)

"They drag, they find oil, they throw the stuff back in

While acting as whistleblowers, Miller and Stewart have both been accused of being "troublemakers" and "liars" by persons in the Mississippi government and some of their local media, in spite of the fact that they are doing so from deep concern for their fellow fisherman and the environment.

Meanwhile, both men told Truthout they live with chronic headaches and other symptoms they've been experiencing since they were exposed to toxic dispersants while in the VOO program. Recent trips to investigate their waters for oil and dispersant have worsened their symptoms.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   21:34:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: All (#16)

Treason.

Coast Guard Complicity

"Lockheed Martin aircraft, including C-130s and P-3s, have been deployed to the Gulf region by the Air Force, Coast Guard and other government customers to perform a variety of tasks, such as monitoring, mapping and dispersant spraying," states a newsletter published in July by Lockheed Martin.

An article by the 910th Airlift Wing Public Affairs Office, based in Youngstown, Ohio, states that C-130H Hercules aircraft started aerial spray operations Saturday, May 1, under the direction of the president of the United States and secretary of defense. "The objective of the aerial spray operation is to neutralize the oil spill with oil dispersing agents," it says.

Joseph Yerkes, along with other Florida commercial fishermen and Florida residents, have seen C-130s spraying dispersants on oil floating off the coast of Florida numerous times.

But the Coast Guard denies it.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   21:37:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: mcgowanjm (#17)

When you don't put links to your posts it sounds like the ranting of a lunatic. Sorry dude but it does.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-08-16   21:40:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: A K A Stone (#19)

When you don't put links to your posts it sounds like the ranting of a lunatic.

You would be a great judge of lunacy.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-16   22:02:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#28. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone (#25)

LOL!

I've told you a thousand times freddy boy.

QUIT posting to yourself while you are looking into a mirror.

That's just not healthy, mentally speaking.

Mad Dog  posted on  2010-08-16 22:09:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Fred Mertz (#25)

Two other people wanted to buy this car.

A K A Stone  posted on  2010-08-16 22:09:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Fred Mertz, A K A Stone (#25)

You would be a great judge of lunacy.

INDEED!!!

Brian S  posted on  2010-08-16 22:56:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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