State officials shut down shrimping in Gulf amid scientists finding deformities and ‘horrifying creatures’ — Media attributes closure to lesions, then retracts


http://enenews.com/state-officials-shut-down-shrimping-in-gulf-amid-scientists-finding-deformities-and-horrifying-creatures-media-attributes-closure-to-lesions-then-retracts


Alarmed by widespread reports of visibly sick, deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, state officials have closed area waters to shrimping this morning (April 23). The waters will be closed indefinitely as scientists run tests in an effort to get a handle on a situation that is fast becoming a full-blown crisis on the Gulf Coast.

The closures – including all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay and Little Lagoon – mark the first official step in responding to increasingly urgent reports from fishermen and scientists of grotesquely disfigured seafood from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle.

[...] I am deeply saddened but not surprised by the shrimping closures. I applaud the courageous move by state officials to put consumer safety first. There’s no doubt in my mind – as I’ve said for months on end – that seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is unfit for human consumption. [...]

4/30/2012 9:02:31 PM

4/30/2012 9:07:03 PM

i mean crabs with extra legs are just a more efficient product honestly.

4/30/2012 9:07:17 PM

^agreed

4/30/2012 9:10:08 PM

not when the extra legs are made of PEOPLE!!!!!!!

4/30/2012 9:11:55 PM

you got a lobster and you got a magnet


[Edited on April 30, 2012 at 9:13 PM. Reason : -]

4/30/2012 9:12:45 PM

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"i mean crabs with extra legs are just a more efficient product honestly."

reminds me of...

4/30/2012 9:16:19 PM

i need visual

4/30/2012 9:32:06 PM

thread, useless, pics, etc.

4/30/2012 9:32:58 PM

4/30/2012 9:40:30 PM

LOBSTER STICKS TO MAGNET

4/30/2012 9:46:35 PM

So we assume it's from the oil spill or what?

5/1/2012 6:52:05 AM

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"There’s no doubt in my mind – as I’ve said for months on end – that seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is unfit for human consumption."

But all those years between the oil spill and now were just fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoOfIR4Vk1o

5/1/2012 8:01:37 AM

^^Yeah, that will be the initial knee-jerk reaction by the general public.

5/1/2012 8:37:29 AM

Don't put a Lobster on a plate, he'll use his magnet to escape!

5/1/2012 8:41:29 AM

good thing seafood is fucking gross

5/1/2012 8:51:52 AM

Oil isn't going to make things deformed, it's going to make them dead. Obviously, this is a terrorist plot using done sort of radioactive nuclear waste.

5/1/2012 9:06:18 AM

I'm wondering if it's from the stuff use to clean up the oil spill

We all know they weren't just using Dawn

5/1/2012 9:13:36 AM

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""There’s no doubt in my mind – as I’ve said for months on end – that seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico is unfit for human consumption.""

You'd rather eat some of that quality Gulf of Thailand shrimp, eh?

5/1/2012 9:16:10 AM

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/335168/20120430/cannibal-shrimp-invading-waters.htm


looks tasty

5/1/2012 9:50:11 AM

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"Fortunately, there is one silver lining to the tiger shrimp population boom, Fuller said. "They're supposed to be very good," she told CNN. "They can get very large, sorta like lobsters.""

Sounds like a mission to eat all the tiger shrimp in our waters. I accept the challenge.

5/1/2012 10:17:46 AM

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"good thing seafood is fucking gross"

i thought you were tuff dude? > 95% of the world's population disagrees.

5/1/2012 11:39:07 AM

well big business has pretty much ruined everything

I invite someone to explain how they didn't

5/1/2012 11:40:13 AM

here we go

5/1/2012 11:43:34 AM

A big business ruined shit. Important distinction.

5/1/2012 11:45:06 AM

yes
BP, a foreign company, destroyed an enormous natural resource in our country

we were able to competently handle destroying the economy domestically

5/1/2012 11:48:12 AM

British Petroleum (BP), which was Anglo-Iranian Oil Company until 1954 - after a U.S. staged overthrow of the Iranian government.

These things are connected. It's an enterprise that has the express backing of the U.S. and British governments. BP will not be held truly accountable. Lives will be destroyed if it means locking in profits for BP. Consumer-protection is a facade.

5/1/2012 11:59:46 AM

Those Tiger Shrimp up there look delicious. And how does this happen:

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"In 1998, approximately 2,000 cannibal shrimp escaped from an aquaculture facility in South Carolina. "

5/1/2012 12:02:09 PM

^ Hurricane maybe?

5/1/2012 12:06:14 PM

Them greedy scientists strike again, trying to scare people so they get more grant money. This is all a hoax. Oil is natural and sea creatures like it.

5/1/2012 12:09:22 PM

shrimp pwnt

stay home

5/1/2012 1:36:16 PM

shrimp prwnt

stay home

5/1/2012 2:04:47 PM

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"In 1998, approximately 2,000 cannibal shrimp escaped from an aquaculture facility in South Carolina. ""

I hope they get ll cool j to play the cook in this one too

5/1/2012 2:07:38 PM

You called, RabbleRabble?

5/1/2012 2:07:49 PM

shrimp and potatuhs

5/1/2012 2:07:56 PM

Something about this story is...



Fishy

5/1/2012 2:09:13 PM