Posted on 03/25/2011 4:39:24 AM PDT by Islander7
GULFPORT -- Federal representatives were working Thursday to take possession of samples from the 71 dolphins dead on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this year, 53 of them stillborn or immature babies.
The hundreds of samples have been stored at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies since mid-January when the animals started dying in unusually high numbers. Most of the unusual deaths came well before the normal birthing season.
NOAA Fisheries was working Thursday, with the help of IMMS staff, identifying the samples, sorting them into batches for transportation and packing them in ice chests, said IMMS Director Moby Solangi.
(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...
IMMS even removed its listing of where and when the dolphins were found, the size and other details as a precaution following the letter.
“Because of the seriousness of the legal case, no data or findings may be released, presented or discussed” without prior approval from NOAA, the letter stated.
This seems to appear they have already decided who is guilty.
I wish I had the ambition to go back far in my FR archives.
Because I swore to one of our freepers that this thing was NOT over, and that Obama’s team had so bungled this recovery, that it was gonna take YEARS for the seafood industry to recover.
The evidence continues to mount that this “recovery” was a head fake, to get this off the front page.
So if I secretly shipped my dead, oil spill killed, dolphin samples to Canada to have them tested, do I need to let NOAA to have a look at the results before I discuss them with anyone else?
Let them try to stop private citizens from investigating.
I’ve read locally that the suspected cause is the unusually cold water draining from Mobile bay into the gulf.
These deaths cannot be attributed to oil in the Gulf, because there isn't any! The quick, efficient, & thorough cleanup by the Feds made sure of that. The food chain was not affected, & marine life have an extraordinary immunity to oil & its byproducts.
NOT!!!!!!
This is the Obama administration preparing to setup conservatives again.
Our nominee will call for drilling and will attack Obama for lack of permits to drill in the Gulf. They will gin up the public over this.
Then, NOAA will release its “findings” that the spill is causing all sorts of horrendous damage....it will all be done in a hyperventilating manner jointly with the MSM.....DOJ will bring charges against BP, etc, etc, etc.
Nobody will be able to question the “findings” because no other samples would be available for independent testing.....not even by BP.
“I’ve read locally that the suspected cause is the unusually cold water draining from Mobile bay into the gulf.”
Hey blam, you can’t post that type comment here!
It does not fit the official storyline that blames evil oil!!!
Come on, cold water killed fish (swimmin’ mammals)after one of the coldest winters on record?/S
That is called “Prior Constraint”, and has no standing as a lawful order.
A government body is prohibiting PRIVATE RESEARCH AND EVALUATION????
NOAA has no such authority!
This is intimidation!
like cold weather killed 2 million fish overnight in the central Chesapeake Bay this year
uh huh
This whole thing was swept under the rug (or sand). There’s no way it is over. I wouldn’t be sending samples to a government agency under this adminstration....I’d raterh pay for an unbiased private lab to determine what happened to these animals.
And speaking of animals...have we ever gotten explanations of what was causing whole flocks of birds to drop from the skies? What the heck are they testing???
Bush kills baby porpoises
Suppression of evidence is a favorite tool of commies in all places where they have operated.
I have seen this occur twice in Florida. Case of a 3.5 year old male whose thighs were sliced open by an “unknown animal” while the boy was playing with his pet dog inside a four foot high fence.
First, a LEO appropriately name “Farless”, decided the mother had carved open her child’s thighs down to the femoral arteries. Her decision as lead LEO on the case was truly ‘far less’ than it should have been, as a Harvard educated plastic surgeon stated that a human could only have inflicted such wounds “with quite an array of sharp instruments”.
THen, things degenerated to a Kafka-esque level as the mother was charged with felony child abuse.
When I asked the Captain of the local sheriff’s department what were the lab findings from the boy’s pants and underwear (tron off during the ‘beastly’ attack, he said the evidence had not been sent to the lab.
When I asked when this would be done, he said it would be done that afternoon. Not surprisingly, the lab findings were impossible.
That lab reported it had identifed DNA from any animal. No cougar DNA, no bobcat, DNA, and most clearly there was no DNA from any dogs
Perhaps the chupacabra did it?
Never let only AgencyPersons hold and test evidence! They have a conflict of interest in that they work for conviction and thus will do anything to get a conviction.
One more thing - deaths of “endangered” critters must never be used to deprive American citizens of life, liberty, or property. Animals are not comparable to humans.
Never forget that “Animal Rights, “socialism”, and vegetarianism were the essentials of a good society according to an ancient Greek idea. Greeks wisely rejected that bit of insanity. However, that nasty philosophy was accepted by all too many nutcake leaders.
Under the Third Reich, cutting a frog up for bait was a crime punished with six months in prison.
Beware of the Treasonous wanting to criminalize human use of animals.
Animals are, when all is said and done, made of meat.
Your are and were so right. Just got off the Gulf Coast and had my blood tested for volatile organic compounds (VOCS). Whoa, those dead dolphins sure were a warning about what is happening to the people on the Coast. I was loaded beyond any resonable limits with ethylbenzene, xylene, hexane and 3-methylpentane. No wonder I felt like a dying dolphin. In a detox program now, check out the “Barefoot Doctors” site for info on detoxing from the Gulf Oil ongoing Spill.
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