The commercial fisherman of the Gulf need your support in lending an ear to their cause, and let me assure you their cause IS your safety.
The Fisherman have a very valid concern over the toxicity of the various products that the FDA is now telling them that it's safe for you to consume.
This is their livelihood, for most, it has been their whole life. They know what's in the water, and what it's done and is still doing, to the sea life that they catch and sell.
All it will take to ruin them for a decade, is for illness to eventually prevail from selling a product that has been all to hastily reintroduced for public consumption.
The oil didn't disappear, it was made to sink to the bottom of the ocean with the aid of highly toxic dispersant.
The perfect example of "Out of sight out of mind", but the commercial fisherman can't put it out of their mind because they still see it out their everyday, and they know what you will be eating no matter what the FDA says.
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/head-of-navy-on-tour-of-oil-repeatedly-asks-wow-what-are-we-in-sir-fisherman-responds-kind-of-looks-like-a-ufo-underwater-dont-it-pgi-video
YouTube Description: Mississippi Fishermen speak out on injustices of the government’s position on oil disappearing
Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources Meetings, Project Gulf Impact, August 17, 2010:
Part II at 11:50 in
Mississippi Fisherman: All [Secretary of Navy Ray Mabus] could say on my boat was, “Wow, what are we in sir?” [Fisherman responds] “Kind of looks like an UFO underwater, don’t it?” [Mabus says] “Wow.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9HEOAVG0
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, sought to ease consumers' minds and palates by saying this week he would eat Gulf seafood himself and "serve it to my family."
Such assurances appear to be doing little to quell the distaste for Gulf seafood, though.
Some processors are having difficulty selling the seafood they can get, even to long-established customers.
"I've talked to suppliers who have sold 20 years to companies and are now being told no," Smith said. "A lot of people are substituting imported product for Gulf product."
Keath Ladner, owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products in Bay St. Louis, Miss., won't send his 70 boats out, even though shrimp season is open in some Mississippi waters.
"They'd lose money," Ladner said. "Nobody wants it. I can't sell it."
Ladner's main national buyer sent him a letter recently telling him it wouldn't be buying seafood from the Gulf "until further notice," he said.
"They can't convince brokers around the nation that it's a safe product," he said, adding that he came across a 2-square-mile patch of dead, floating fish on Friday about 12 miles off Gulfport, Miss.
