Technically not oil you are scarfing down with your tarballs--I mean shrimp

[Generic Other]

GULF OF MEXICO - An area of the Gulf of Mexico currently closed to shrimpers could soon reopen.
That's despite conflicting reports of oil being found out there...

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Patti says a friend with a shrimping boat is working for NOAA in that area and told him his nets came out of the water covered in oil.

"He was in 1,225 feet of water and one side was loaded with oil the other side didn't have any oil it had some tarballs in it and a few shrimp. But the other side was polluted."

But NOAA's seafood safety manager says Patti's claims are exaggerated. Doctor John Stein told me the shrimping nets were covered in an abnormally high number of unweathered gooey tarballs but that it technically wasn't liquid oil.

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/features/coastal-crisis/videos/vid_845.shtml

[hobbit709]

1. That's like saying ice is technically not liquid water.

[SoCalDem]

2. Gulf shrimp..pre-oiled for your convenience

:eyes:

[DCKit]

5. Just keep your cooking fire low. nt

[SoCalDem]

6. & stand back n/t

[Catherina]

3. Rec'd. My cats won't even touch canned pet seafood anymore.

I trust their senses more than the NOAA's corporate complicity.

[Angry Dragon]

4. But that is how the tested the shrimp before

all they did was give it the sniff test
and declared it safe
cats have much better sense of smell
and they cuddle better

[Generic Other]

7. that's pretty telling!

wow! government needs cats to do the sniff test!