HELPLESS, TEARS: Dealer says load of crab

[Generic Other]

Run time: 03:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhUS_5FwNzw   Posted on YouTube: September 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 330   Posted on DU: September 16, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1194

 
*Tears and a feeling of helplessness*

When looking at a load of newly delivered crab, the smell "knocked us down," St. Bernard Parish seafood dealer Kevin Heier told Fox 8 New Orleans.

"Heier believes the crabs were contaminated with oil," according to Fox 8.

Heier was "in total shock" and had never seen anything like this before. Neither had his colleague who's been in the crab business for 60 years.

They contacted the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, reported Fox 8 and Heier said, "We got a biologist that was supposed to come here. About an hour passed and he never showed up, so we called the biologist and he said my superior stopped me from coming."

[livingonearth]

1. Just a glimse of how things could be if we always let corporations have their way.

[Courtesy Flush]

2. I don't understand why the crabs have to be alive to be tested n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. ..."we called the biologist and he said my superior stopped me from coming."

Grr. We don't live in anything that resembles a democracy.

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. expose the name of the person called!

Have reporters follow up why his boss told him not to test the crabs. The story is not over, where is the media?

[TheEuclideanOne]

8. The story is over, actually.

Sad, but true. Back in the day, the story would just be beginning at the point where the people who are supposed to come down and investigate decided to stop the investigation. Today it is just another small part of the story. If we had a respectable news, the clip that we saw would not be the main story. The main story would be the reporter interviewing the people who stopped the investigation and the clip we saw would just be background info.

On an unrelated note, I sure hope that all of the residents were successful in making sure that oil drilling resumes. (we need a snarkiness emoticon)

[TxVietVet]

5. Several things need to be discussed here.

Louisiana and it's citizens should hold BP accountable. Now, they have bitten the conservanazi propaganda bu$hit and love it. F*ck 'em. Jidal is an idiot. Most of them are just looking for fast money mostly from offshore drilling. Don't get me wrong. I love Louisiana and it's people but they have fallen into the pit with the conservanazis. I lived there for a while and loved it. Hunting, fishing and playing Army at Ft. Polk. I grew up across the river from Louisiana.

However, lots of them that I know don't like Obama for the simple fact of the color of his skin.

So, deal with it. I pity those who make money off the crabs and shrimp. Life is going to be hard for them. They need to stand together and go after the oil companies and the conservanazis who will betray them for money, like Judas.

[Generic Other]

6. When a grown man cries because he is not willing to poison people

to make a living at something he has spent his life doing, I don't care what his politics are. I see an honest man. I feel his pain. And my heart goes out to him.

[necso]

7. "I don't want to hurt nobody."

Good for him. The world would be a much better place if everyone adhered in practice to this principle.

I'll be interested to read what the results of testing are (ie, if done, if credible, etc). But if the crabs are moving, even fishing in the exact same spots might not reproduce the exact same results (ie, crabs contaminated in the same way). (It may be those specific crabs that were fouled, not the spots where they were caught (which, if this was the case, might also have been reflected in gear fouling), except insofar as the crabs themselves (having been fouled elsewhere) fouled these spots by their presence, passage.)

...

Sometimes some thing (some event) can only happen during a "window" (of time and/or other circumstances) of opportunity. (Which window may be the "overlapping" part of other (relevant) windows.)

And sometimes an event has a certain amount of preparatory time (etc) and/or "recovery" time (...) that must also (or would best) fit within this window. (Which event may be comprised of other events (in the trivial case, two or, generously, three), each of which has its own prep/recovery time, thereby complicating matters.)

[florida08]

9. they should still have the crabs tested

alive or dead..oil or corexit will show up. Keep the local media on it and national will pick it up. If swimming pools can get attention this should be no problem. Forget the local dept of wildlife..they're in the pocket apparently..but like someone up thread suggested..send a filming crew to the damn place and ask why. You have to be persistant with these crooks.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Generic Other.

[sabrina 1]

11. I wonder how much more it will take to realize that they do not care about

the American people. We are on our own.

[Crowman1979]

12. But but obama said that gulf seafood was safe.

:sarcasm:

[Devil_Fish]

13. they should send half of the next catch to an independand lab. NT