http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/new-orleans-tv-alarming-discovery-of-adult-crabs-filled-with-some-sort-of-black-substance-video
No really you can eat the seafood the EPA said so.
Oiled Crabs’
Fox 8 (New Orleans) reports on an “alarming discovery” made by Mississippi fishermen — around a half dozen “full-sized crabs filled with some sort of black substance.”
The find “has many wondering what’s happening below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“You could tell it was real slick and dark,” said one of the men who discovered the crab, a longtime seafood supplier and owner of Gulf Shores Sea Products. After opening the shell, he said “The lungs of the crabs — you could see the black.” According to Fox 8, “He said he’s never seen anything like it… crab’s lungs are normally a white.”
Fox 8 reports that this seafood supplier said “some of the largest processing facilities in the country say they just can’t buy from him right now because
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Oil found in Gulf crabs
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html
University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species.
Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans have found droplets of oil in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola, Fla. The news comes as blobs of oil and tar continue to wash ashore in Mississippi in patches, with crews in chartreuse vests out cleaning beaches all along the coast on Thursday, and as state and federal fisheries from Louisiana to Florida are closed by the BP oil disaster.
"I think we will see this enter the food chain in a lot of ways — for plankton feeders, like menhaden, they are going to just actively take it in," said Harriet Perry, director of the Center for Fisheries Research and Development at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. "Fish are going to feed on (crab larvae). We have also just started seeing it on the fins of small, larval fish —
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html#ixzz0sXosy0av
University scientists have spotted the first indications oil is entering the Gulf seafood chain — in crab larvae — and one expert warns the effect on fisheries could last “years, probably not a matter of months” and affect many species.
Scientists with the University of Southern Mississippi and Tulane University in New Orleans have found droplets of oil in the larvae of blue crabs and fiddler crabs sampled from Louisiana to Pensacola, Fla. The news comes as blobs of oil and tar continue to wash ashore in Mississippi in patches, with crews in chartreuse vests out cleaning beaches all along the coast on Thursday, and as state and federal fisheries from Louisiana to Florida are closed by the BP oil disaster.
"I think we will see this enter the food chain in a lot of ways — for plankton feeders, like menhaden, they are going to just actively take it in," said Harriet Perry, director of the Center for Fisheries Research and Development at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. "Fish are going to feed on (crab larvae). We have also just started seeing it on the fins of small, larval fish —
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/01/96909/oil-found-in-gulf-crabs-raising.html#ixzz0sXosy0av
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