Indeed, the fish factor.
Posted on 02/16/2010 10:12:03 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Marine biologist Milton Love drives a hybrid car, displays a banner of leftist icon Che Guevara on his laboratory wall — and has backing from big oil.
The reason is his finding that long-maligned oil platforms off California's Central Coast may be a haven for overfished stocks of groundfish.
The research is good news to oil executives, who are looking for reasons not to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to remove the platforms once the oil stops flowing.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Offshore oil platforms are artificial reefs - Fish love it(beware, turn your speaker volume down)
Wreckreational Diving ( Oil rigs become artificial reefs )
Looks like an artificial reef habitat to me in both cases.
There is even a process/proposal out there which would transform old rigs into reefs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigs-to-Reefs
Rigs-to-Reefs (RTR) is a nationwide program developed by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) [1] of the U.S. Department of the Interior to turn decommissioned offshore oil and petroleum rigs into artificial reefs.
What these people don't yet realize is that actively commissioned offshore oil rigs are also habitats and reef zones. Just ask the experts:
Offshore Rig Fishing in Louisiana - Outer Limit Charters
Who best to know where the fish congregate than a charter fishing who's life depends on knowing the hot spots?
Article’s other headline:
Fish like offshore oil rigs, but is it a habitat?
But even if it's old news, it's still worth reading because it reinforces the fact that the Greens are wrong about EVERYTHING.
Indeed, the fish factor.
Heck we on the Gulf coast knew this many, many years ago. Fishing and shrimping increased drastically...for the good.
Won’t matter because all the fish and reefs are freezing to death from global warming.
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The article may be 4 years old, but studies like this are new news to a lot of people given the makeup of the media.
Count myself as one. I didn’t know anybody bothered to study if an offshore rig is a habitat. Even if the drive bys want to poo poo it.
Yeah, I could see the charter fishermen and those they surround finding out quickly that fish love the rigs.
Still, now academia is catching up with you.
Translation: "Marine biologist Milton Love drives a hybrid car, is a clueless idiot — and has backing from big oil. "...
No surprise there really. Any fisherman will tell you structure is important.
Fish like to have something to hang around and hide in if need be.
Likely not as good as ground beef, but, hey, I'll try just about anything once.
This is news? Those of us on the gulf coast have know that for decades.
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