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133. I meant to say shrimp and crab, and wrote a longer remark about

The risk invovled in eating tuna, due to its mercury content. I snipped the comment wrong in an effort to have a more concise statement. And thank you for correcting me.

In any event, in the months after the BP event, I used to post the link to the young scientist that Rachel Maddow ahd interviewed. He had been isntructed by whatever lab he worked for to care for fish in a tank where Corexit was present. He was then advised to present the finding that the Corexit did not harm the fish, as at the 7 day mark, the fish were all fine.

However, this researcher didn't release the fish, at day 8, but instead kept them to study them longer. (Having a 7 day study is total foolishneess - even a fifth grader doing a science project uses longer time frames to prove or disprove their hypotheses) Anyway, at around day 10, the fish started dying, while the control group of fish, in a tank wherein there was no Corexit dontinued to do okay.

Here is a link to what is being written about the fisheries in the Gulf, published on the internet in 2013, and referring to peer reviewed studies published in a leading journal:

http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/03/13/voices-from-the-gulf-do-not-eat-our-food/

If any group would have a motive to lie and misrepresent the safety of the food supply in the Gulf, it would be the very people who make their living from fishing the waters. Yet, even these people are stating in no uncertain terms that there are very serious dangers associated with ingesting the Gulf’s food supply. For example, Kathy Birren, owner of (Florida’s) Hernando Beach Seafood, told a gathering of concerned Gulf residents that the shrimp fisherman have every financial reason to declare the seafood of the Gulf to be safe…..” Birrren further proclaimed that “fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated seafood to market and make people sick.” Chris Bryant, a Gulf commercial fisherman stated that “…if a commercial fisherman who makes his living off of those products doesn’t want to deliver them to the public, the public needs to know why.” Tracy Kuhns, a Louisiana Bayoukeeper, stated that “The tissue testing of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent.” While President Obama and other public officials continue to persist in their claims that the Gulf food is safe, these noble fishermen have clearly stated that the spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they’re concerned that seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for consumption.

Scientists at The University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University have echoed Thomas and Perry’s findings which found oil in the post-larvae of blue crabs entering coastal marshes along the Gulf Coast signaling that oil is entering estuarine food chains. Dr. Perry observed that “I have never seen anything like this.”

Scientists at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab shows oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has made its way into the Gulf food chain as well. These particular scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico which is a clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they have easily entered the food chain.
In the first peer-reviewed challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) safe levels for cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a new study says they were overestimated in Gulf seafood following the BP oil spill by up to 10,000 times.
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Harriet Perry, a research biologist with the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory and Bob Thomas, a biologist at Loyola University in New Orleans have independently discovered that the crab larvae has been infected with both oil and the toxic dispersant, Corexit. These independent discoveries are an ominous sign that the Gulf’s vast food web has been seriously impacted thus imperiling food safety “for years to come.” Thomas further stated that oil and dispersant toxicity has reached the level of where it is “moving up the food chain as opposed to just hanging out in the water.” Thomas further concluded that “something likely will eat those oiled larvae…and then that animal will be eaten by something bigger and so on.”