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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: 42435
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  


#22. To: mcgowanjm (#17)

...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.

Really? This one is news to me.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-16   22:00:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Fred Mertz (#22) (Edited)

Really? This one is news to me.

You know after the baby daughter/obama in theSpring fed backwater/photo in the Gulf that the POTUS is in up to his scrawny neck.

It's the US/bp. And the US has to cover bp's ass. In public. In your face.

After All This, NOW They're Worried About the BOP By eljefebob on August 16, 2010 11:48 AM | 6 Comments Things keep getting curiouser and curiouser with the Well that Won't Die. In his presser this morning, Adm Allen announced that they are still trying to decide what to do about the relief well, the weak components on the old BOP, and how they're going to approach the relief well, which is still just sitting there, a tantilizing 3 1/2 feet from the blowout wellbore. Dithering seems a strong word, but one I'll now use. You'll recall that right after BP started the surprise "well integrity test" back in July, they announced the surprise "static kill", characterizing it as low pressure, low risk, and an effort to "stabilize" the well. They pumped that procedure on August 3rd, and, declaring the well "static", then pumped 500 barrels of cement announcing that the entire job went right down the casing and out into the formation. That was 11 days ago.

http://dailyhurricane.com/2010/08/after-all-this-now-theyre-worried-about-the-bop.html

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   22:45:14 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: All (#33)

Kent Wells, the star of the BP "Technical" McBriefing's, where no technical data is provided, and only few questions are taken (notice I didn't say answered), has been AWOL since his last appearance 6 days ago.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-16   22:47:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: mcgowanjm (#34)

Kent Wells is AWOL?

I hope he doesn't meet the Matt Simmons destiny.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-16   22:54:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Fred Mertz (#35)

Kent Wells is AWOL?

I hope he doesn't meet the Matt Simmons destiny.

None of these yoyo's are gonna get out of this alive.

Dragon King. Epic Fail. The ONLY good thing is that their ability to destroy lessens with each passing day. And they'll have seconds to realize their peril.

It Was A Failure...

I am waiting for the audio and transcripts to post from today's briefing from the Thadmiral, but he said three things today that spell-out Mudding/Cement failure.

1. There is a "gap" in the Well Column causing loss of pressure, and resulting in the fizzing we've seen at the seabed.

2. The remedy is to either remove the BOP, or wait seven days to build a pressure relief contraption.

3. Relief Wells (remember the Relief Wells?) are suspended until BP totally fucks-up everything exhausts the next string of bullshit fixes they like to pull out of their asses with no real thought.

Thadmiral(on the edge of aneurism) explains the seabed "fizzing":

http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-17   9:19:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#46. To: All (#45)

The Thadmiral says we've got two choices: Wait for them to disengage the BOP from the DD2 RW site (which they had started to do waaaay back when), or wait at least a week for the BP Brain Trust and Clown College to knock-together some new contraption to attach to the Leaning Tower of BOPStack.

I don't imagine that any of the BP Thinkers play chess.

Whatever happened to Obama's Super-Duper Area 51/Skunk Works SHART POTEMKIN UNCLE JASON Team?

Didn't think anyone would bring these guys up . . .

London Times: Secret Report by Black Operations Group "The Jasons" Warned Leaders of Catastrophic Climate Crisis

Ref - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4690900.ece

At the highest levels of the U.S. government, officials pondered whether global warming was a new threat to civilisation. They turned for advice to elite special forces of the scientific world – a shadowy organisation known as Jason. Even today few people have heard of Jason. It was established in 1960 at the height of the cold war when a group of physicists who had helped to develop the atomic bomb. In 1979 they produced their report: coded JSR-78-07 entitled The Long Term Impact of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide on Climate. Now, with the benefit of hind-sight, it is remarkable how prescient it was. Right on the first page, the Jasons predicted that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere would double from preindustrial levels by about 2035. Nor were the Jasons frightened of drawing the obvious conclusions for civilisation: the cause for concern was clear when one noted "the fragility of the world’s crop-producing capacity, particularly in those areas where small alterations can bring about major changes . . ."

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