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State Officials In Alabama Close Gulf Shrimping After Scientists Find Severe Deformities
After scientists and fishermen have found severe deformities in a substantial percentage of Gulf seafood, the State of Alabama have moved to shut down shrimping.
WERC-FM local news reports:
Some area waters along the Gulf Coast will close to shrimping starting today. The areas closed are all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay, and Little Lagoon. The closure comes after scientists found smaller than average population of shrimp and lesions. They say the plan to test the water and will continue to run samples until the waters are re-opened. There is no set time when the waters will be open for shrimping again
Local ABC affiliate WEAR TV reports:
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has temporarily closed some local waterways to shrimping.
The waters were closed to shrimping on Monday.
The areas include all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay, and Little Lagoon.
The closure is in response to routine shrimp sampling that indicated the average size were smaller than 68 head-on shrimp per pound. Meaning biologists found smaller than average shrimp in the waters causing the temporary closure. They will continue to take samples in these areas and determine any modifications to the closures.
And we’d like to clarify that the closures were not due to lesions being found on shrimp as we reported earlier this weekend and Monday morning.
However, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (“ADCNR”) has previously pretended that shrimp closures were due to size – and not oil.
For example, on May 20, 2010 – a month after the Gulf oil spill started – ADCNR’s website said:
Closed all inside waters to shrimping. This closure is a seasonal closure due to shrimp size. Closure was not related to oil spill.
Is this surprising in a world where dead animals are hidden to reduce BP's liability and BP and the Coast Guard pretend that petroleum is “fish oil” and “algae”?
H/t: Stuart Smith.
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Stupid nanny state always stepping on the free market.
Fishermen should be able to sell these shrimp, and when they make people sick, then the invisible hand of the market will punish the fishermen responsible and they will go out of business.
But but but Presisdent BPObummer said all is well!!!!!!
scary shit. how many of you have stopped eating seafood at all? I've been choosing the nuke'd/deepwater horizon'd shit over the gmo farm shit I don't know if that's the right choice
Way to many Henny Pennys here
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Carrying 141,200 Barrels of Crude (55% the size of the Exxon Valdez Spill)
Sank off Eastern Seaboard of the US in December
Discharged cargo into Atlantic
No press coverage….no environmental outrage….no clean up effort launched
Have You Ever Heard of These?
Montebello - Carrying 100,000 Bbls (40% of EV Spill)
Sank off the coast of California in December
Discharged cargo into Pacific
USS Allan Jackson, Francis Powell, and Rochester
Each Carrying significant % of EV Spill
Sank off East Coast of US in January
Discharged their oil into Atlantic
No Media Coverage
No Billion $ Cleanup Effort
No Outrage
What Was Happening?
In December 1941….Oil Tankers were high value targets for German submarines off the East Coast of the US and Caribbean
132 US flagged tankers and 717 US Merchant Ships were sunk off the coasts of US*
A significant but unknown number of English, Free French, Russian, and other Allied Nations oil tankers were sunk as well
Tankers Lost Dec 1941 – Feb 1942
12/2/1941 Astral Tanker Torpedo
12/13/1941 Manatawny Tanker Bombed
12/23/1941 Montebello Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
1/18/1942 Allan Jackson Tanker Torpedo
1/27/1942 Francis E. Powell Tanker Torpedo
1/30/1942 Rochester Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
2/2/1942 W. L. Steed Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
2/4/1942 India Arrow Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
2/5/1942 China Arrow Tanker Torpedo
2/19/1942 Pan Mass. Tanker Torpedo
2/21/1942 J. N. Pew Tanker Torpedo
2/21/1942 Republic Tanker Torpedo
2/22/1942 Cities Serv Emp Tanker Torpedo
2/22/1942 W. D. Anderson Tanker Torpedo
2/26/1942 R. P. Resor Tanker Torpedo
Tankers Lost March - May 1942
3/10/1942 Gulftrade Tanker Torpedo
3/12/1942 John D. Gill Tanker Torpedo
3/15/1942 Ario Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
3/16/1942 Australia Tanker Torpedo
3/18/1942 E. M. Clark Tanker Torpedo
3/18/1942 Papoose Tanker Torpedo
3/18/1942 W. E. Hutton Tanker Torpedo
3/22/1942 Muskogee Tanker Torpedo
3/22/1942 Naeco Tanker Torpedo
3/26/1942 Dixie Arrow Tanker Torpedo
3/31/1942 Tiger Tanker Torpedo
3/31/1942 T. C. McCobb Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
4/4/1942 Byron Benson Tanker Torpedo
4/4/1942 Comol Rico Tanker Torpedo
4/5/1942 Catahoula Tanker Torpedo
4/9/1942 Atlas Tanker Torpedo
4/9/1942 Eugene Thayer Tanker Shelled
4/10/1942 Gulfamerica Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
4/10/1942 Tamaulipas Tanker Torpedo
4/12/1942 Esso Boston Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
4/23/1942 Connecticut Tanker Torpedo
4/29/1942 Mobiloil Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
4/30/1942 Federal Tanker Shelled
5/4/1942 Joseph Cudahy Tanker Torpedo
5/4/1942 Munger T. Ball Tanker Torpedo & machine gun
5/6/1942 Halsey Tanker Torpedo
5/12/1942 Esso Houston Tanker orpedo
5/12/1942 Virginia Tanker Torpedo
5/13/1942 Gulfpenn Tanker Torpedo
5/16/1942 Gulfoil Tanker Torpedo
5/18/1942 Mercury Sun Tanker Torpedo
5/20/1942 Halo Tanker Torpedo
5/23/1942 Samuel Brown Tanker Torpedo
5/26/1942 Carrabulle Tanker Shelled & Torpedo
5/28/1942 New Jersey Tanker Torpedo & Shelled
The Equivalent of Over 132 Partial Exxon Valdez Spills Occurred Immediately off US Coastlines within 4 years
No Organized Cleanup Effort
No Money Spent
No seagulls fluffed
No fish polished
No sea turtles waxed
Arguably no permanent damage…the Earth took care of itself and no one noticed….
George Carlin once said they earth would shake mankind off like a flea. I'm sure he was right
Remember Ozymandias
So the Astral was a US flagged ship sunk by a torpedo off the US coast? 12/2/1941 was 5 days before Pearl Harbor and the US and Germany were not at war. Not doubting your information just find that interesting.
The Krauts sank many merchant vessels before Pearl Harbor.
You've got to remember that no one was tossing all kinds of chemicals on those spills like they did in the Gulf. Damn, no more bubba yum shrimp. What do you say we take the hierarchy of BP along with the government officials that let them do this, (and then gave them a $20 billion tax credit for the $20 billion they we suppose to ok spending to clean the place up), and throw them all in the slammer for 10 to 20 years. THIS WOULD include Barry Soetoro, so I rest my case. Damn fine idea I think.
Sounds Bullish. Maybe the Algos can trade deformed shrimp with each other. CNBC Headlines...Blind Shrimp makes catching them easier. Shrimp demand to go parabolic.
Americans are getting so FUSSY!
And to my friends who thought I was weird for stocking up on food storage...
I'll still share it with you ignorant fucktards, because I love you though I don't know why.
That's Okay...
The US Military Will Use It
Pentagon Ass Holes
The US Military is the largest buyer of Gulf Coast Corexit Shrimp to feed our boys and support our troops...
As a last resort the govt. buys the contaminated food and feeds it to the military, how yum. It goes to show you how much they care about the military. If the shrimp are in bad shape, what about the other lifeforms.
I posted this on a forum years ago that I thought it was wrong that the military is going to buy that seafood, and the tough guy ex-military crowd all joked about how gulf seafood for chow would be a treat for our troops. Damm idiots.
But...but...those BP commercials on T.V. say everything is back to normal and healthy!?!?
Fukushima sushi under ultraviolet light - all the glowing colors of the rainbow, on your plate tonight, along side of your petrochemical bar b q shrimp. Way to go, big business, looking after me just fine, world wide !
Just think of how much revenue this will generate for the healthcare industry and how much money it will save Social Security and Pensions!
They can hire Tim Tebow to pray for them. All Republican leaders and their families should have moved to the Gulf months ago: breathe the air, drink the water, eat the food. If there is a destructive result from the BP oit spill, remember, the Rothschild family owns BP. TAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY.
Remember, tuesday is your Soylent Green day. Soylent Green, made out of "Alabama Shrimp", by the Soylent Corporation(C).
Hurting innocent sea creatures is how we roll
Obama 2012
Not to worry, you can still get Pacific shrimp. I hear the radioactive Cesium adds a sweet and sour flavor without any sauce!!!
Oh, don't worry, these are a new and improved genetic line of SHLIMP ("L" for lesions) and contain very healthful omega "o" (oil) keeping your joints well lubricated: available now in 30, 60 or 90 wt.
Good thing Bubba never made it outta 'Nam....and Forrest got outta the biz-ness
Couple a sad sorry faced saps at what's comin' outta da Gulf
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Truth is, they suddenly realized what George Carlin realized many years ago - Jumbo Shrimp is an oxymoron. "Oh my god!," they're saying, "These are logically impossible! Besides them having sixteen legs and thirty eyes..."
George Carlin "On Location" HBO Special (1977) - Words we use
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLKTFxA8ENU
The entire 1977 George Carlin HBO special:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gXShkK2GvI
I've heard Corexit helps alleviate constipation.
And the only charges filed to date are for Corp. text it
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2012/04/bp-oil-spills-first-crim...
eat me! bitchez ;-)
Humans are a cancer.
No... But corporations and their owners the ruling elite are...
Monsters From the ID
No problemo here in California. We get the radiated shit from Japan.
Don't worry, the water's fine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303244/Obama-uses-daughter-promote-tourism-swim-Gulf-Mexico.html
Switching to frog legs, I hear they're getting six per these days.
Need for social self-replicating monadal block. Working on it.
Wunderbar German Bologna. Its whats for dinner. Its good and its inflation proof.
Stupid is as stupid does.
tast still can't beat Fukushima shrimp
Which have three eyes. It's just a matter of balance.
never liked the eyes anyway... DRILL DRILL DRILL baby!
- L. Kudlow
Is he the same who said he doesn't care about cocaine prices because his wife always just buys $100 worth at a time?
Ah! More "input material" for PINK SLIME
Crap! Guess I won't be having the Shrimp Lovers' Feast at Red Lobster tonight.
It's o.k., they'd give you three shrimp, 27 hush puppies, a pint of coleslaw, a watered down drink, and bring you the check halfway through your third bite to push you out the door ASAP and flip that table.
“Closure was not related to oil spill.”
I highly doubt this is the case.
Yeah, but you know it's funny the way lawyers/PR pros write up press releases.
They could know 100% for certain that something like this is a result of...let's say Corexit allergies in the shrimps....and they could still say it's not related to the "oil spill," because no Corexit came out of the damaged well.
Hmmm, tastes like 30 weight.
New engine-cleaning Techron - when eaten in conjunction with dietary fiber - will help clean you out!
What a coincidence. Just this morning my wife told me it was closed due to size and had nothing to do with the spill.
Convinced her 1" equals 1', eh?