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.

[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.