Oil Spill Tarballs Wash Ashore As NOAA and BP Say Gulf Fish Safe To Eat.

  Posted by - May 8, 2010 at 9:58 pm - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
NOAA says Red Snapper and other fish caught in oil contanimated Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat.
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This is not a joke, this was just posted via @BP_America, BP’s official Twitter account.

RT GulfOilCleanup Fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat, says NOAA http://bit.ly/adDiG4 #oilspill about 4 hours ago via twitterfeed

Perhaps we should get a boat load of fresh seafood and serve it to the big wigs and pencil pushers at NOAA and BP.

From  the NOAA news article: posted on AL Live:

Fish caught in the Gulf of Mexico are safe to eat and most of the waters are open for fishing, Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told the Press-Register today.

Lubchenco met with scientists at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab this morning to discuss the environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

As what she called the scientists for the federal government, NOAA has just under 13,000 employees who are all doing something related to the spill. They’re tracking the spill on the administration’s Web site, testing seafood out of Pascagoula and working with fishermen to let them know where they can and cannot fish.

She said about 5 percent of the gulf is closed to fishing right now.

At the same time NOAA was making the declaration at Daulphin Island widespread reports of Tar balls suspected to be part of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak have been been reported along the shore at Dauphin Island. The Alabama Department of Environmental Management confirmed the reports Saturday afternoon.

Dauphin Island Mayor Jeff Collier said officials have received “more than one report” since just before noon from around the fishing pier at the public beach and areas westward.

Scott Hughes, spokesman for ADEM, said the water generally is safe, but advises people to stay away from the tarballs.

Seriously sickening. Just look at that current state of the Gulf of Mexico in these 18 aerial photos
Gulf of Mexico Flooded with Tarballs

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