I thought the fishing would never return to the Louisiana Gulf Coast? LOL
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
January 23, 2012 2:41am CST
I though that the fishing would never return to the Gulf Coast after the big bad BP spill?
But wait, it's alive and well and the fishing is great!
Any other myths out there the left expects us to swallow.. hook, line and stinker? lol
http://www.waderson.com/390-Saltwater-Fishing-on-Louisianas-Gulf-Coast.html
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@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
23 Jan 12
An oil spill doesn't usually leave permanent damage. But it is a long expensive process to clean up. And it did do a lot of damage. I don't know about you. But most people don't like their seafood basted in crude oil.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
24 Jan 12
Then they should never eat fish ever. Natural underwater seeps, leak millions of barrels worth of oil into the oceans every day.
Everyone remembers the Exxon Valdez. As bad as that was, off the coast of California, they discovered about 80 Valdez's worth of oil on the sea floor, all of it from underwater oil seeps.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130944.htm
Oil bubbles up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico literally year round. The oil slicks can be seen on the surface of the ocean from satellite pictures.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36873
Oil is a very natural part of the environment, and always has been. Microbes and other natural effects, break down, and eat oil constantly.
That isn't to say that having a sudden trillion barrels of oil, won't have a negative effect. Of course it will. More food means the microbes will grow and spread massively. More microbes using oxygen means the oxygen level will drop, which of course can kill fish.
But the idea that you are going to pull a fish out of the ocean without any tint of oil, is not likely. Oil is being spewed naturally into the Gulf every minute of every day.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
27 Jan 12
Actually, Knoodle, the oil is the same whether it seeps in or gushes in. The difference is, one needs to be cleaned up, the other is naturally there. It does need to be cleaned up because it is much more concentrated in the water.
But my point is, the doom and gloom scenarios we heard in the months following the spill were highly exaggerated.. as usual.
@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
27 Jan 12
Oil seeps are a bit different than thousands of barrels of crude spewing up to the surface from a burst pipe. Its unlikely to have fish that doesn't contain trace amounts of pharmaceuticals, caffeine, and other man made chemicals. But that doesn't mean I want my mahi mahi pulled up through 3 inches of crude floating on the surface. I don't think the fish die from algea consuming too much oxygen. I think its more from that thick film floating on the surface that neither let's in oxygen or light. Also swimming through a 20% oil water mix might be bad for their gills. Look at some pictures of animals in oil spills.
@Chiang_Mai_boy (3882)
• Thailand
23 Jan 12
Your overall premise is probably correct but your link takes me to a fishing site on Calcasieu Lake. The lake was never affected by the spill.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
23 Jan 12
True, got me there. But yeah, my premise is still correct.
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
23 Jan 12
When we Americans need to solve a problem, we usually get it solved.
@andy77e (5156)
• United States
24 Jan 12
The problem is business fishing, not tourist fishing.
Business fishing has been hurt, but not for the reasons the left would claim.
There's no reports of people dying from oil laced fish, nor are boats going out and not catching anything. Far from it.
Instead the problem is that the government has drastically cut down the number of days boats can fish.
That leads to the obvious question: 'why?'
Well... there's the right-wing response that possibly the government has purposefully cut the days in order to use the hurting fishing industry as a pre-text for denying off-shore drilling. Sadly, government has done similar things before, so this can't ruled out.
Despite the claims to the opposite, the administration has done everything in it's power to stall, ignore, or deny drilling for oil in the Gulf. Ironically at the same time that China has stepped up drilling off the coast of Cuba, which is the same oil bed. Obama may have ended the official moratorium on off shore drilling, but he hasn't ended the unofficial denial by bureaucracy.
Unfortunately for people like me who hate government, it's also possible that the population of fish really has been hurt by the oil spill, and the reduction in fishing in the gulf is necessary to allow the fish to grow back.
Which one of those two it is, I really don't know.
@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
23 Jan 12
I think fishing there has been going there for a while. It was just that people did not really want to eat anything from there or was not sure if it was safe to eat anything from there. Can you really blame them?
