Posted on 06/30/2006 1:16:51 PM PDT by DTogo
More oil! More fish! Remove the off-shore drilling ban now!
NO FISH FOR OIL!!!!!
I've fished while tied up to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and can assure you that the fish love it there. The captain called them vertical reefs.
LOL!
Yep, I've fished around the ones off of SB and LA - lotsa fish and lotsa pesky seals!
"There are 27 oil and gas platforms along the California coast and approximately 6,000 worldwide."
Having been occupationally located at more than 100 of the 6000, I can assure you that the fishing is GREAT at every one of them. It is fallacious to pretend otherwise.
This is a big huge "DUH"!!!!!!! The rig fishing in the gulf off the mouth of the Mississippi has been outstanding for years. They make the best reefs. You could get tired pulling them in before you ran out of fish.
oh man! who tied you to an oil rig? pirates?!?
Not me Zeppo, the boat!!!
Red snapper [insert joke here].
Rockfish? paging Gandolph Fitch...
Scuba divers off the Texas Gulf Coast love it for just that reason.
Gandy calling Richie Brockelman!
Now environmentalists are going to demand oil companies build more platforms. (But no drilling allowed.)
Rockfish is the name used in the Carolinas for the species we in the northeast call striped bass. "Stripers" have been successfully transplanted to the Pacific coast, but I'm guessing that the rockfish referred to in the article is something different.
>>>Rockfish is the name used in the Carolinas for the species we in the northeast call striped bass. "Stripers" have been successfully transplanted to the Pacific coast, but I'm guessing that the rockfish referred to in the article is something different.<<<
The left-coast Rockfish is a small, brightly-colored fish of no particular color. I caught many while bottom fishing in about 80-100 feet of water near the Coronado Islands in Mexico, and they are delicious.
http://www.goldenstateimages.com/rockfish.htm
Yes, I think that the momentum is shifting on offshore drilling --- even the Washington Post has written an editorial supporting its expansion.
Personally, I think the offshore rigs in the Santa Barbara Channel are cool, especially at night.
I lived in Santa Barbara decades ago, and I had a nice ocean view from my modest apartment. I think it rented for $450 a month, and it would probably rent for $1,250-odd now but I digress.
This will really distress environmentalists, but when I was in my apartment, I could see the oil rigs and during the evening, as the light faded away and the twinkly lights started coming on in the oil rigs, I thought it was a beautiful sight - the sea, the oil rigs and the lights.
I thought the rigs actually enhanced my ocean view instead of detracting from it.
Maybe I'm just strange :-).
D
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