Published: October 18th, 2012 at 1:47 pm ET
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Title: About 565,000 pounds of oiled material from Deepwater Horizon stirred up by Hurricane Isaac
Source: Times-Picayune
Author: Jeff Adelson
Date: October 17, 2012
[...] While the uncovered tar has been a problem for the island’s tourism industry, the spill and the remaining submerged oil has been a problem for shrimpers and crabbers in the community. Hauls near the island have been small or non-existent, a problem the [Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle], a shrimper himself, blamed on the disaster.
Some shrimpers have to had to choose between making payments on their boat or keeping a roof over their head, Camardelle said. Others have said they’ve had to go to the waters off Mississippi to catch shrimp. [...]
Daily Comet: Dean Blanchard, owner of Dean Blanchard Seafood on Grand Isle, said shrimpers had great catches in Texas and Florida, but locally, “it’s the worst we’ve ever seen. It’s getting worse and worse every year.”
Watch the latest footage of BP’s oil floating in Gulf here
Published: October 18th, 2012 at 1:47 pm ET
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Shrimp and crab are bottom feeders. They will migrate to escape an unfriendly environment, which is why the catch is good in Texas and Florida.
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Dosdos
shrimpers in Florida were still hauling full loads …
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not feeling sorry for people willing to sell poisoned food
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I think that whatever they catch should be examined for science ONLY! None of that should be edible!
Who ever needed to make a living there NEEDS to re-locate ANYwhere else!
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agreed PurpleRain. I'd add that those who are forced to emigrate elsewhere (for economic reasons) should also be duly compensated by those who brought-about this calamity…
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The EPA issued a release on the safe consumable amounts of seafood after the Gulf well blowout followed by the use of COREXIT dispersants. Included limits on consuming fish and crustaceans during one meal, either in ounces/grams with a accumulative scale not to exceed (yearly amounts?).
In other words, seafood from the gulf was/is safe to eat but in limited quanities.
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Anyone have the EPA release on the allowable amounts?
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@jec
I can't recall the link, but I do remember that a nurse demonstrated the amount they were talking about. O.K. to eat a shrimp… Pardon me for laughing. People are still eating shrimp out of the Gulf (not one shrimp) because BP told them in advertisements that it was all good. Come on down….
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Gulf Seafood Radium Levels; Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/gulf-seafood-radium-levels-chernobyl-in.html
Fukushima; Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
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@jec:
AGreenRoad did a nice job with that first link…
ttp://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/gulf-seafood-radium-levels-chernobyl-in.html
The last video in that posting around 4:00min makes reference to the FDA (not EPA as I remember it, maybe both, as partners in crime) eating guidelines of (in that discussion) gulf shrimp. No more than 4 to 6 shrimp a week for 175 lb. man. The lady scientist refers to the sniff tests used by government to determine seafood safety for consumption while she found in her tests that odor (smelling for hydrocarbons) had nothing to do with her contaminated gulf seafood results.
NoPrevarication (above) remembers correctly as the same video I watched has a nurse clumsily reviewing the amounts of recommended seafood for consumption, detailed in that FDA release, as she tried to cut and weigh out the recommended portions to be eaten. She was reading out of the FDA report in front of her during the video.
Try searching for the lady in that news report: Wilma Subra – Environmental Scientist/study author, she was reviewing the same FDA report.
This link… http://www.katc.com/news/scientist-questions-safety-of-gulf-seafood/ …makes reference to the FDA report again. I had a link of the nurse video but that was 3 hard drives ago.
Elsewhere, I was reading about COREXIT dispersants and they somehow bind with oil and its byproducts, allowing whatever it binded with to pass through skin and into fish and people. Nasty stuff.
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For more details….
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=116&pst=1167607
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