Eyeless Shrimp and Mutant Fish Raise Concerns Over BP Spill Effects

Fox Houston ^ | 4/18/2012 | MYFox Houston

[Mike Darancette]

(NewsCore) - Eyeless shrimp, fish with oozing sores and other mutant creatures found in the Gulf of Mexico are raising concerns over lingering effects of the BP oil spill.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 people and spewed an estimated 4.9 million barrels into the Gulf, in the worst offshore oil spill in US history.

Two years later, scientists and commercial fishers alike are finding shrimp, crab and fish that they believe have been deformed by the chemicals unleashed in the spill, according to an extensive report by Al Jazeera English.

[Mike Darancette]

Sounds fishy to me.

[billorites]

[null and void]

It's Al Jazeera, certainly a much more reliable source than

[EGPWS]

scientists and commercial fishers

Neither of which could profit financially via s spill stink being contrived.

[Charles Henrickson]

and other mutant creatures found in the Gulf of Mexico. . . .

[wolfcreek]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbon Probably not the above substances rather the dispersant.

[autumnraine]

So let’s see all those who mocked the sources on another thread regarding this.

[eddie willers]

an extensive report by Al Jazeera English.

Erk!....put the brakes on.

[JRandomFreeper]

Two years later, scientists and commercial fishers alike are finding shrimp, crab and fish that they believe have been deformed by the chemicals unleashed in the spill, according to an extensive report by Al Jazeera English.

So when is Al Jazeera going to do an expose on the damage done to the ocean from the oil spill that Saddam released, that was MUCH WORSE than the gulf spill? And was done on purpose by Saddam?

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

It's still the same B.S. Al Jazeera report that is being referred to.

/johnny

[Mike Darancette]

Not one news source that I read has done any investigation of their own and nowhere have I seen a reason stated why this can’t be true.

[Free America52]

Until I see pictures - and lots of evidence - i do not believe this story.

[tumblindice]

First they came for the eyeless shrimp.
Then they came for the poor pwned porpoises and the docile dolphins.
And yet we said nothing. Finally, they came for limbless Frenchmen.

[capt. norm]

These anomalies have always existed....caught a lot of 'em in the 1960's '70's, etc.

I sense an agenda here....

[Vendome]

Fine. I’m in. this is al jism BS.

You can find the same aberrations anywhere in the world across all species.

The dispersants used in this clean up have long ago well, been dispersed and washed through the Gulf Stream through the Atlantic currents and around the world.....years ago...

In fact, it happened within one week of each instance, of dispersants used, leaving the ocean with negligible or no detection of any chemicals used .

[Vendome]

Fine. I’m in. this is al jism BS.

You can find the same aberrations anywhere in the world across all species.

The dispersants used in this clean up have long ago well, been dispersed and washed through the Gulf Stream through the Atlantic currents and around the world.....years ago...

In fact, it happened within one week of each instance, of dispersants used, leaving the ocean with negligible or no detection of any chemicals used .

[ml/nj]

Eyeless Shrimp and Mutant Fish

I'm more concerned with braindead Democrats.

ML/NJ

[Chode]

feh...

[Las Vegas Ron]

LOL @ your comment.....

natural oil leaks in the ocean

[Rebelbase]

[Las Vegas Ron]

Fine. I’m in. this is al jism BS.

LOL....no comment from me, I'd be banned for sure ;)

[TigersEye]

Nature healed what man inflicted in 1979 Gulf spill Read more: June 10, 2010

" "A lot of the fishermen around here will tell you that the fish never came back,'' says Vega Morales. ``They'll say, `Oh, in the old days, you could catch fish with your hat, it was so easy.' That's how we are, always talking about the one that got away. But the truth is, after maybe nine months or so, it was back to normal." " (Ixtoc 1)

"Soto, who followed the fish and shrimp population off Mexico closely, found to his surprise that for most species the numbers had returned to normal within two years."

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Oil Cleanup Expert Comments on Gulf Spill

"Every year 2 million to 12 million tons of oil naturally seep from the ocean floor and into the sea. In fact, many of the deposits in the Gulf of Mexico were discovered by observing these oil seeps, which is why the hydrocarbon degraders are everywhere, waiting for their “dinner” or fuel. Fishermen should be prepared for the extra catches that are coming because after every major oil spill there’s an explosion of local fish."

"But before a fish explosion can happen, the microorganisms need to be able to get to the oil and digest it. Since oil and water don’t mix, adding a dispersant will accelerate the breakdown of the oil, making it more available to the microorganisms."

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1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

"Even with those obstacles, fishers still managed to amass an impressive catch in 1979 -- when oil was gushing into the Gulf."

"Researchers in Campeche found shrimping that year enjoyed a high. The total tonnage of seafood caught in the Gulf of Mexico grew by 5.9 percent compared with the previous 12 months, and octopus capture in the Bay of Campeche beat the previous record by 50 percent."

"Tunnell's follow-up research into life near Texas beaches showed that organisms whose populations were apparently reduced by the massive spill replenished themselves within a few years."

[central_va]

We need a shrimp with disabilities act.

[BfloGuy]

So let’s see all those who mocked the sources on another thread regarding this.

Here I am -- I'm one of those who mocked the source on another thread. Sources matter -- and I'm not prone to accept at face value what some oil-company-suing-lawyer writes on his blog. Would you? Evidently you did.

Now that I start to read about it from some other sources, I'm inclined to give it credence. Why do you find that worth making a deal over.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Put it in perspective. There were 8 Olympic sie swimming pools of oil spilled into the gulf. Or as Rush said, 1 drop in a bathtub

[TigersEye]

This is at the bottom of this MYFox Houston article...

Read more: Al Jazeera

So it's apparently the same source.

[bikerman]

Hear we come to save the day, the tiger shrimp are on the way.

[Razzz42]

Just a minor details link including a video to beat up on. (US government has set seafood consumption levels from the Gulf to avoid certain cancer rates ever since the Horizon blow out. I suppose I will have to post that link since I will be the only one that can find it.)

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/2-years-after-the-bp-oil-spill-is-the-gulf-ecosystem-collapsing.html

In the meantime...

http://article.wn.com/view/2012/01/03/BP_says_it_is_entitled_to_payment_from_Halliburton_b/

[BfloGuy]

Put it in perspective

Oh, I do. I was just informing the commenter that this source, added to the others, made me give it more credence. Not ready at all to simply believe it.

[BfloGuy]

Read more: Al Jazeera.

Heh. I didn't notice that. The source on the thread I referenced was a blog by an activist lawyer who makes his living suing oil companies. I chided the poster for that.

I was just annoyed that the commenter I was responding to seemed annoyed that some of us were doubtful. I still am -- just willing to listen.

[TigersEye]

There are other opinions about the affect of oil in ocean waters.

[RedMDer]

Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

[SuziQ]

I suspect there have always been such anomalies in sea critters before, but no one had any ‘catastrophe’ on which they could blame them.

[RedMDer]

Spider Pig and Homer

[BfloGuy]

There are other opinions about the affect of oil in ocean waters.

Sheesh. I must be a worse writer than I thought. I never said I agreed with the article. Never. Not once. Nunca. Jamais.

[TigersEye]

I know that. I said nothing to indicate that I thought otherwise.

[Clara Lou]

I don’t understand how eyeless critters manage to find food to live long enough to be big enough to be caught. How does that work?

[Clara Lou]

What “other sources” did you find?

[TigersEye]

Government assistance. Through SSI they all get seeing-eye krill.

[Vendome]

I’m coming back through Vegas this summer, after I get my shoulder operated on.

I’ll stop in and say hi.

[Vendome]

LOL

Freepers are hilarious!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yabut yabut...was it the oil, or the COREXIT®?

[chemicalman]

Eyeless shrimp, fish with oozing sores and other mutant creatures found in the Gulf of Mexico

That's OK. I don't eat shrimp eyes. Catch fish all the time that have sores, even before BP spill. Cut out the sore spot, and still have meat. Only other mutant creature I'd seen was Obama walking on the beach.

[Mike Darancette]

What “other sources” did you find?

This article mentions nothing about mutant shrimp. Seems like they might have even had a decent shrimping year.

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/gulf_shrimp_harvest_numbers_ar.html

[Mike Darancette]

How do a crab with no claws feed itself?

[Vendome]

ROTFLMAO!!!

I was ready to for a bit of wasted time.

When I lived on the East Coast, I happened to be in Philadelphia and listening on the radio.

The News Talker was commenting on some blind guy, whooooo had a black belt in Tae Kwon do.

So this guy is minding his own business when a mugger decides to prey on him “cuz he looks easy?”

Nope/Bad Move/Worst Decision Evuh.....

The Blind, Black Belt, Beats the Brazen Bozo like the redheaded step child he always hated and puts him in the hospital for a week.

Broken this, Broken that. The list is too extensive.

So the Newstalker after describing this simply says “Hmp”.

Dead silence and just as I’m reaching to change the channel all of the sudden I hear:
“Blindy Man, Blindy Man Does Whatever a Blind Man Can. Can he Kick, See him Flip....Look Out....Oops, didn’t see that one coming stoopid robber man”

I was dying laughing. So I knew the owner of the station and his son Kyle. Drove over and had to see who it was and when I got there, maybe 10 minutes later, they were still laughing.

Too funny.

[Delta 21]

Got butter?

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[moehoward]

Spend too much time on that treadmill and your eyes will pop out!

[sand88]

This article mentions nothing about mutant shrimp. Seems like they might have even had a decent shrimping year.

My neighbor owns a restaurant in Uptown New Orleans. He gets seafood, including shrimp, from the Gulf. Nothing is wrong with the seafood from the Gulf.

This article is scare-mongering and full of lies.

[RedMDer]

LOL!