BP Gulf Oil-Spill Fishing Waters Opened East of Mississippi River Despite Oil Just a Few Miles Away
Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 31, 2010 at 6:42 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
Loading ...Al.com is reporting that government agencies have decided to open BP Gulf oil-spill fishing waters east of the Mississippi River.
NEW ORLEANS — Commercial fishermen were allowed back in some Louisiana waters east of the Mississippi River today after federal authorities said samples of finfish and shrimp taken there were safe to eat.
In Mississippi, state waters north of the barrier islands were ordered opened to all commercial and recreational finfish and shrimp fishing activities that were part of the precautionary oil spill closures. The order takes effect at 6:01 p.m. today.
All commercial and recreational crab and oyster fishing will remain closed in the affected area.
The reopening is being implemented after completion of extensive sampling and testing conducted by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The article also points out that local politicians and businessmen were pushing the government agencies to reopen the waters even in areas where there was known to be oil in the water.
The newly opened waters had already been opened by the state to recreational fishing based on extensive testing of the fish, but FDA approval was needed to open commercial fishing. Gov. Bobby Jindal and seafood processors complained about a backlog of samples awaiting FDA testing, and about FDA protocols that complicated the matter.
For instance, the FDA refused samples from waters where oil was spotted. That had Louisiana officials in a lather last week because they said FDA refused samples from areas were small numbers of tar balls — clumps of weathered oil that are less toxic and would not be ingested by the fish — had been spotted.
Harlon Pearce, owner of a suburban New Orleans processing plant and the chairman of the promotion board, had been highly critical of the FDA, but he welcomed the news of the Friday and said the FDA has been working closely with the state to get more tests done.
They also report that oyster and crabbing have not been reopened blaming a longer testing time required for crabs.
The waters remained closed to crabbing because the FDA testing method for crabs takes significantly longer than finfish and shrimp testing, a Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries news release said.
Oysters in some Louisiana waters have been killed not by oil contamination but by fresh water diverted south in hopes of keeping oil from encroaching.
However the real reason that crabbing may not have been reopened, as I pointed out in my last article, may just be because scientists are now reporting they have found crabs from Texas to Florida are contaminated with Corexit and oil and the contamination is visible to the naked eye.
Fox News is now reporting that researchers now believe Corexit and oil have infested crab larvae from Texas to Florida and fear the toxic chemicals from the BP Gulf oil spill may bio-accumulate and contaminate the entire food chain.
A report today from Fox 8 in New Orleans reveals that the “orange blobs found lodged in the bodies of tiny blue crab larvae collected from marshes that stretch from Texas to Florida” appear to contain Corexit, according to preliminary results from researchers at Tulane University.
The report says BP’s dispersant “may do more harm than the oil itself.”
University of New Orleans’ Martin O’Connell, PhD said, “No one really knows” if Corexit will bio-accumulate. “If you’re a small fish and you eat 1,000 of these small crab larvae and all of them have oil or Corexit droplets in them they could get into the fish — that little fish could be eaten and so on and so on.”
Pondering the future of the Gulf, O’Connell said, “I think they should be more concerned that we might be losing whole cohorts of these animals when they’re very small, and we won’t see the impact in the adults but three or four years from now.”
Florida toxicologist Dr. William Sawyer, who has been hired on behalf of sickened fishermen and cleanup workers, says “some of these chemicals are in great excess — of risk-based lethal levels — that the current hydrocarbon levels are capable of sterilizing our fisheries and estuary production zones.”
The Fox 8 report concludes, “Since so many fish and crabs feed on crab larvae, some scientists fear the oil and dispersant droplets threaten to kill critical areas in the Gulf of Mexico food web.”
To make matters worse the Louisiana Emergency Website states that oil was found just yesterday only a few miles from the area of the BP Gulf oil spill fishing waters that are being reopened.
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- Sighting: Oil located near the N end of the Chandeleur Islands
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- Sighting: Dime to quarter sized oil patches impacting an unnamed mangrove island .43 miles ENE of Brush Island.
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Just to give you an idea of where those sightings are I put together this KML file of the July 30 fishery reopening and added the two locations of the oil sightings for viewing in Google Earth.
Here is a screen grab of the Google Earth screen showing the two sightings just a few miles outside the area being reopened.
Gulf Fishing Waters Opened East Of Mississippi River Despite Oil Just A Few Miles Away
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Off the topic, but in view of the fine research you have been doing, it is important to read this article just posted by a geohazards specialist. If he is right, it will be up to the public and bloggers like yourself to get the word out, since the MSM isn’t saying anything. It’s not the Matt Simmons thing, by the way, but it makes complete sense. Finally.
http://bklim.newsvine.com/_news/2010/07/30/4781973-why-is-bps-macondo-blowout-so-disastrous-beyond-patch-up-
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If it is proven that larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola are contaminated with oil and corexit dispersant, (as one expert put it) “the effect on fisheries could last for years probably not a matter of months” and affect many species.
SO we just stop eating crab and it will be OK right? Wrong!
It all comes down to understanding the food chain. The food chain is the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community (an ecosystem) to obtain nutrition.
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/07/whats-for-dinner.html
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I sense… They are lying!!
Why are they lying? You asked..
To be able too capture as much money as they can before….
Tsunami’, martial law and such you don’t want to know.
~ Sometimes there is bliss in ignorance. ~
XXXXXXXXX Stay Out Of The Water~!
The water is Not safe, the food is toxic. Period.
I sense… The ‘immediate dead zone’ is more then 500-miles north from the beach inland and growing according to the tributaries flow inland and’’ air flow.
~ All of ~ Cuba & Florida.
500-miles inland of, all the land in the Gulf.
Including, Aruba and parts of Eastern Mexico~
The carol reefs of Mexico will be damaged to extent.
Cuba is gonna be upset to say the least.
Expect law suits for negligence on the part of our government and probable physical altercations with Cuba and/or their allies.
HOWEVER…
There is still some time to enjoy the beaches of ‘Southern and Western’ Mexico before they become toxic.
+++++ Forget Florida. It does not exist..
I sense…
We should NOT close the borders in entirety and lock ourselves in. O_O
It would be really stupid to lock ourselves inside a toxic land but that very well may happen. [ETA Within 15-years.]
I sense…
Yes, we will get hit by space debris, unusual solar activity and more turbulence in our magnetic fields.
{Earth quakes, fires, tsunami)
_Looks at yellow stone national park_ BOOM
Good night, TheMystic
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Entrained Throughout The Food Chain – Insane!
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Alex, you should really make a post about the skin lesions.
They're opening the waters while this is happening just a few miles away: Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana—Area residents have begun to show up at clinics and hospitals with mysterious scabs and pustules covering their extremities, as reported from residents to non-profit relief organizations in the Gulf.
One thirty-three year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has disclosed to Project Gulf Impact that upon seeking medical advice at a clinic, she was told she had scabies. Hours later, she was told by an area hospital that she had a staph infection. The woman was treated with a shot of penicillin and Elimite cream, a topical agent for the treatment of scabies mite infestations, and an oral antibiotic. In addition to the lesions, the woman reported aching bones, weight loss, stomach pains, inflammation in her leg and sties developing in her eyes.
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