Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping As Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify

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Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping As Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify

Last edited Thu Apr 26, 2012, 03:41 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
Source: Energy News

State officials shut down shrimping in Gulf amid scientists finding deformities and ‘horrifying creatures’ — Media attributes closure to lesions, then retracts


Title: Looming Crisis: Officials Close Gulf Waters to Shrimping As Reports of Deformed Seafood Intensify
Source: Stuart H. Smith
Date: April 23, 2012

Alarmed by widespread reports of visibly sick, deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, state officials have closed area waters to shrimping this morning (April 23). The waters will be closed indefinitely as scientists run tests in an effort to get a handle on a situation that is fast becoming a full-blown crisis on the Gulf Coast.

The closures – including all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay and Little Lagoon – mark the first official step in responding to increasingly urgent reports from fishermen and scientists of grotesquely disfigured seafood from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle.

I am deeply saddened but not surprised by the shrimping closures. I applaud the courageous move by state officials to put consumer safety first. There’s no doubt in my mind – as I’ve said for months on end – that seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is unfit for human consumption.

Read more: http://enenews.com/state-officials-shut-down-shrimping-in-gulf-amid-scientists-finding-deformities-and-horrifying-creatures-media-attributes-closure-to-lesions-then-retracts
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[teddy51]

1. The Federal Justice Department better start pulling some big fish out of BP to charge with this.

So far they are going after the small fries, lets hope the small fries will sing to save their own asses.

[appleannie1]

2. They are trying to do a cover up. The article says "no lesions" which is not true.

Shrimp Without Eyes Found in the Gulf of Mexico


We've been told Gulf-caught seafood is completely safe to consume, following the BP Oil Spill in spring 2010.

Yet, fishermen and scientists have found horrifying creatures in the Gulf of Mexico...including blue crabs without claws, shrimp without eyes and fish with lesions.

BP and Federal Agencies say these findings don't necessarily have to do with the oil spill.

http://www2.wsav.com/blogs/weather-she-wrote/2012/apr/24/shrimp-without-eyes-found-gulf-mexico-ar-3665798/

“We’re continuing to pull up oil in our nets… Think about losing everything that makes you happy, because that is exactly what happens when someone spills oil and sprays dispersants on it. People who live here know better than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/fish-without-eyes-found-in-gulf-of-mexico.html#ixzz1tB87neT9

[G_j]

5. not sure what this is, but..

it doesn't look good..

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[Mojorabbit]

9. It looks like what we call "cotton" disease of shrimp

I dip shrimp in the Indian River on the other coast of Fl (have for over 20yrs)and every year there will be some shrimp with this but usually down the spine. I have never seen it on the head. Here is the oak hill, fl shrimping guru's description of cotton.
http://leenoga.com/topic/437/Shrimp-Cotton-Disease#.T5m6HbNYsxw
She has photos.

[jwirr]

15. Yes, if they stop the fishermen from taking fish and shrimp then there is not proof except what they

want to provide us.

[northoftheborder]

3. Devastating news, but not surprising.

[lovuian]

4. try Corexit contamination

and we dumped tons of it in the Gulf

[HiPointDem]

6. if the waters are closed, where's the official announcement of same?

sources in this thread seem marginal.

[G_j]

8. reported on Pensacola (abc) news

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_vid_22028.shtml

[HiPointDem]

12. thanks.

[SidDithers]

14. Here's the announcement from the Alabama Marine Resources Division...

http://www.outdooralabama.com/fishing/saltwater/Shrimping.pdf

Sid

[Logical]

18. Easy to find, did you even look???

[kenny blankenship]

7. Dick Morris changes Facebook status to "Confused and Depressed"

[Auntie Bush]

10. Horrors! And now they are going to start drilling in the Arctic this summer!

I wonder what kind of creatures will be the result...a two headed polar bear or seal?
I just dread the thoughts of the possible outcome of Arctic drilling. This planet will never be the same!

[mother earth]

11. BP plunders the food supply and planet while spending loads of money on propaganda instead of

a real clean-up. What they did was just push the contamination below the surface. We now have visual evidence of their shameless and willful destruction. This is what capitalism is - profits over everything, screw the planet and people. We have yet to reap Fukushima's devastation, stay tuned.

All the while MSM blah-blah's a litany of idiocy, nary a word is ever spoken about the true issues facing all of us by policticians. Big gov't blah-blah, gays blah-blah, abortion blah-blah....while people need jobs and Monsanto quietly destroys the food on dry land, BP and nuclear disaster are destroying it at sea level. The EPA? useless, rendered impotent, just like the every other purposely broken gov't institution, all in the name of the reign of corprotocracy.

I have had enough of this corporate backed raping and pillaging of the planet. Money doesn't matter if everyone is dead.
Capitalism for the elite, screw the planet and the minions. And the politicians just blah-blah-blah-blah...vote for me...it's time to wake up people.

Have ya had enough yet?

[SidDithers]

13. Shrimping Waters To Be Closed This Weekend

http://www.local15tv.com/news/local/story/Shrimping-Waters-To-Be-Closed-This-Weekend/_v0NRY93k0epFh1yC3m2Bg.cspx

The Alabama Marine Resources Division announced Tuesday that several local fishing waters will be closed to shrimping beginning this weekend.

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The closure is in response to routine shrimp sampling that indicated the average size were smaller than 68 head-on shrimp per pound, which is the state-regulated per-pound minimum.

"They're running 100-count," Shrimping Veteran Billy Rice said. "That's small shrimp.

"Smaller shrimp are coming in. They close it down until the larger shrimp come in."

Rice said it happens every year.

More detail at the link above.

Sid

[shimonitanegi]

16. Possible Repukes' reaction for this report

Nobody knows What causes deformed seafood.
I can bet it is not Man-Made.
Who cares about stupid shrimps.

[Duer 157099]

19. And..

"Who cares if they're blind! As long as they taste good!"

[DCKit]

20. You have to admit, they're easier to fry when they're pre-oiled. nt

[Rowdyboy]

17. And the small fisherman who remain lose their jobs....many have never done anything else

and the job market in the gulf south is horrible. A lot more families will be going hungry because of this. I understand why it is necessary and agree with the decision but BP MUST PAY!

[G_j]

21. heartbreaking

not to forget also that many themselves are suffering health problems from the disaster.