Shrimp Trawlers Have Started Dredging Up BP Oil In The Gulf Of Mexico

[woo me with science]

Source: Business Insider

As the federal government proceeds with a long and complicated legal and scientific process, the Natural Resources Damage Assessment, they are holding a series of public meetings to get input and comments from affected Gulf-area residents. At a meeting last week in Biloxi, Mississippi,

Vietnamese shrimpers said they have pulled up nets full of oil from the seafloor and have had to decide whether to report the oil to the Coast Guard, which would mean dumping their day's catch, or pretend they don't see the oil.

John Lliff, a supervisor with NOAA's Damage Assessment Remediation and Restoration Program, said no one knows how much of the seafloor is covered in oil.

Until the oil totally disappears, it seems highly likely that this will continue. But we don't have a clue how long the oil will linger, or what the impacts of this would be on the health of fishermen, the recovery of the Gulf ecosystem, or the safety of seafood.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/shrimp-bp-oil-2011-3

[Ian David]

1. There's tar shrimp... crude shrimp... petroleum shrimp... corexit shrimp... sludge shrimp... n/t

[nc4bo]

4. So many choices on the menu...hmm-mmm good.

Aren't we still be told that the GOM seafood is safe to eat and we should eat as much as we want without fear?

[xchrom]

2. worrisome:

'Vietnamese shrimpers said they have pulled up nets full of oil from the seafloor and have had to decide whether to report the oil to the Coast Guard, which would mean dumping their day's catch, or pretend they don't see the oil.'

[gratuitous]

5. Quick risk/reward analysis

What happens if they dump their catch? They don't make no money. What happens if they pretend they don't see the oil, rinse off the shrimp, and bring the catch in to port? They might make money. They might get caught. Decisions, decisions. Folks who eat shrimp should hope that small time trawlers have higher standards and ethics than large multinational corporations.

[Cassandra]

3. Fairway, a market in NYC...

has a sign when you come in saying that they carry no Gulf seafood at all and that they own land on the Alabama coast (I assume to get their seafood directly) and that they are really furious about what's happened. Are private businesses suing BP for their negative impact on business?

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. Land on the Ala. coast/gulf is also contaminated.

Oil washed up on the beaches here, Corexit is in the water from Louisiana all the way to Fla.
People are getting sick from being out on the water, but MSM refuses to print that.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, woo me with science.

[Poboy]

7. Recommend

[hatrack]

8. Really?!?!? I thought all that icky oil went to Magic Away-Land, thanks to the wise people at BP!!!

:puke:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

9. BUT BUT BUT I saw on the TV the other day everything was fine and clean.

The Mainstream Media wouldn't LIE...... would it?


When they came out with their BP Select Scientist saying they could not find any oil I knew they were lying.

Or they knew just where to "look"

[Urban Prairie]

10. Couldn't be GOM crude oil, BP & gov't said its all gone, must be some of that "harmless" mousse

leftover that Haley Barbour mentioned about last summer.

:sarcasm:

[FLPanhandle]

11. They have a financial incentive them to not report oil catches, we need to encourage reporting

Simple. If they have a oil filled catch, report it and have BP pay the shrimpers twice the catch value.

Encourage them to look for and report oil and keep oil contaminated seafood out of the food supplies.

[Sal Minella]

12. I can hear BP's screams and shrieks from here, without even

punching the FF button on my magic time machine. How unfair this would be to poor BP, how wounding.

[blindpig]

14. BP is getting away with murder with government connivance.

Can there be any question who the government really works for?

Kill Capitalism.

[Rex]

15. Actually, that is Freedom Oil and it has always been there.

Foods safe folks, come on down and try our shrimp...mmm good eats!!!

[glinda]

16. I would like to start bringing up the subject of Citizens' arrest.

Jurisdictions have the authority, and of course there are many variables in each State, but I think a national and orderly attempt at starting to arrest and detain the top tier polluters and their ilk could be possible if done very carefully and with a majority petition.
Might I suggest a detainment site of the Vermont Nuclear Plant, after the rods and casks are disposed of properly?