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Category Archives: Recovery
Toxic Oysters: Heavy Metals Have Entered Gulf Food Chain, Could Inhibit Reproduction
It’s official: The BP oil spill has poisoned the iconic Gulf oyster. And the fallout, according to scientists, could be devastating to the surrounding ecosystem and the people who work the Gulf waters. A team from the California Academy of Sciences has been studying oysters for two years, both before and after BP’s oil reached the shores of Louisiana, Alabama and Florida. The scientists found significantly higher concentrations of chromium, [...]
Read More »Biscayne Bay’s pristine tropical waters teem with exotic marine life from manatees to dolphins to ”super corals” to environmentally critical sea grasses. Strips of mangroves and wetlands cushion the shores. The bay’s untamed beauty attracts millions of tourists annually and draws nature-lovers and sun-worshipers from around the world to live on its idyllic shores. The Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve provides a safe haven for endangered species and an ideal nursing ground [...]
Read More »CORRECTION: On April 21, ABC affiliate WEAR-TV, which covers Pensacola, Moblie and Fort Walton, reported on its website that some areas of the Gulf were being closed on the morning of April 23 due to concerns over the presence of smaller-than-normal shrimp and shrimp with “lesions.” That report was in line with a multitude of other recent mainstream media reports – from the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others (see [...]
Read More »Nearly two years on from the worst oil spill in U.S. history, seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico looks like it belongs in a shop of horrors rather than an all-you-can-eat buffet. Severely deformed shrimp with bulging tumors – and no eyes. Red snapper and grouper riddled with deep lesions and oozing sores. Eyeless, clawless blue crabs. So goes the parade of the “seafood grotesque” in the Gulf [...]
Read More »All the slick BP tourism ads and fat research grants and indignant denials in the world can’t change one crushing reality for the Gulf Coast: There’s still fresh, highly toxic oil from the Macondo reservoir fouling our waters and shoreline. The “old-world” fishing community of Bayou La Batre, once hailed as the “Seafood Capital of Alabama,” has been dealing with that painful reality for nearly 24 months. Many commercial fishermen [...]
Read More »The post-spill recovery of the Gulf of Mexico took a couple of big hits this week – revelations that indicate a full recovery may take years to realize. NOAA released a “damage assessment” study showing that Gulf bottlenose dolphins – nearly two years on from the worst oil spill in U.S. history – are severely ill, exhibiting signs of anemia as well as lung and liver disease (see link to [...]
Read More »In the wake of the BP oil spill, hundreds of dead bottlenose dolphins – some visibly oiled – washed up on Gulf Coast beaches at a rate nearly 10 times the norm. Many more died at sea. Dozens were stranded alive, severely ill and disoriented. During the summer of 2011, NOAA conducted “comprehensive physicals” on 32 live dolphins to determine the “post-spill health” of the mammals in Barataria Bay, one [...]
Read More »As widening reports of severely depleted catches and collapsing fisheries rock coastal communities on the Gulf of Mexico, BP announced late last week that it will cap compensation for “fishing-related claims” at $2.3 billion. The British oil giant is taking a hard-line stance on limiting a potential avalanche of liability tied to a Gulf industry that has been decimated by our nation’s worst oil spill – one that released more [...]
Read More »The Gulf seafood industry is in a free fall – particularly in Louisiana, which once produced nearly 40 percent of all seafood caught in the continental United States and $2.3 billion in revenue. Those glory days are are now just a memory, and they may never be recaptured. For the past two years, there’s been precious little Gulf seafood to bring to market – ever since BP’s blownout Macondo Well [...]
Read More »Although the start of the “trial of the century” has been further delayed, relief for individuals and businesses damaged by the BP oil spill may be delivered in relatively short order. According to a statement issued by New Orleans District Court Judge Carl Barbier late Friday night, BP and attorneys representing spill victims “reached an agreement on the terms of a proposed class settlement.” The federal judge also announced that [...]
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