"Really Alarming": No baby oysters being found in Louisiana's most productive areas

[Generic Other]

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"Scientists are baffled..." REALLY?????

NEW ORLEANS -- In the waters stretching from the MR-GO, down to the mouth of the Mississippi River, oysters are having a tough time, and a mystery is unfolding in one of the state's most productive areas for oysters.

"It's not a good sign," said John Tesvich, chairman of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force.

The sign is a lack of oyster spat, in what is known as coastal zone number two. Scientists are baffled, and they said so at a meeting on Tuesday of the Oyster Task Force.

"That's really alarming, when we see large areas, some of the areas that are the heart of the predominant oyster seed ground, we're not seeing the young spat this year," Tesvich said.

more:
http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Oyster-fishermen-worried-about-problem-area-along-the-coast-114608049.html

[Roy Rolling]

1. Alarming, yes, but

There is hope because this is only one particular area that is affected, other areas are recovering. The hope stems from the fact that. perhaps, a scientific analysis can determine why some oyster beds recovered and some oyster beds did not. Other than ruling out the Walrus and the Carpenter, the analysis has just begun.

[Can of Whoop-ass]

2. We'll all be dead...

Cheney, Shrub's deregulation damages continue, "Who needs oysters? They're yicky, y'all!"

[Marblehead]

3. wait until

the oil and corexit makes its way up into the Chesapeake, north sea etc.

[LynnTTT]

4. Well, Duh

This is a surprise? It's baffling? What stupidity.

[DFW]

5. I must be a secret marine biologist. I don't find this baffling.

For months, thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed out of a damaged well, and then to disguise the extent of
damage, boatloads of toxic Corexit were dumped into the ocean on top of the oil. The gooey poison flowed here
and there with the currents, and so some areas were 100% saturated with it, and some were less than 100% affected.

When the Dow Chemical plant at Bhopal released a toxic cloud, or when a cloud of dioxin escaped at Seveso, no one
seemed "baffled" when people started dying right and left. Is the Louisiana Oyster Task Force unaware that a huge
cloud of toxic poison in the water does to marine life what a dioxin cloud in the air does to terrestrial life?

Apparently. Maybe someone should send them an email and enlighten them. After all, we can't have the Louisiana Oyster
Task Force baffled for too long, can we?

[Generic Other]

7. The Louisiana Oyster Task Force balks at opening public oyster grounds

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Members of Louisiana's Oyster Task Force still aren't ready to open more public oyster grounds to harvest, despite depleted supplies that followed the BP PLC oil spill.

The Task Force on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly against a motion by oyster dealer Al Sunseri to recommend that the state open more public grounds east of the Mississippi River. The motion followed a state Wildlife and Fisheries report that recent surveys found few young "spat" oysters in the area in question.

Fear of damaging spat was a main reason why the task force supported the state's decision late last year to keep the public grounds east of the Mississippi closed indefinitely.

The lack of spat in the area in question took away one argument for keeping the area closed. Still, opposition on the task force, which includes harvesters and others involved in the state oyster industry, was strong.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-26/la-panel-balks-at-opening-public-oyster-grounds.html

[KeepItReal]

6. And the GOP says get rid of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY?!?

These people are not living in the real world

[Altoid_Cyclist]

8. I'm sure that the corporate media will have extensive coverage of this.

I mean afterall, they've been doing such a great job of following developments in the Gulf from day one.

It's a good thing that BP and our government managed to stop the crime (accident???.... B S !!) from destroying the habitat that so many creatures depend on to survive. The humans have also been saved from any long lasting health or financial consequences from what I've heard.

OK, I'm getting more and more pissed off as I type this, so let me just say that as always, Thank You G-O for keeping the truth visible to those WILLING to see and realize that this is a catastrophe that is still taking place whether the national media report about it or not.

[Bennyboy]

9. Scientists are baffled!?!?!?"

Really? I'm not in th least bit baffled.

[TheEuclideanOne]

11. Just amazing. Totally shameful.

It is shocking how these reporters take this position that this is a total mystery. In a very real sense, they are in cahoots with the oil companies because they are covering up the damage that has been done instead of doing their job. Simple as that. If they were doing their job, they would NOT cover this story as if it was some mystery that we all woke up one day and, out of the blue, oysters stopped producing. Instead, they would take the position that this is totally expected and no matter how many times BP says on TV that "We will make this Right", the reality is that they have killed this industry for many years to come and there should be a price to pay.

If I were covering the story, I would open it by filming my team breaking onto the set of one of those BP commercials, dragging the actor out and bring him to where these oysters are, grab him by the back of the neck and rub his face in it a pile of oysters for a a good long while as I say "THIS IS WHAT YOUR COMPANY DID!".

After that, I would cover the story like it should be covered. Instead of pretending it is a mystery, describe it as what it is... Cause and effect.

[Generic Other]

12. And don't shuck the oysters before you rub his nose in it

I agree with you. Keelhaul a few BP officials, lob tarballs at a few media hairdo's, and force the others to an all-you-can-eat shrimp and oyster feed of contaminated seafood. Then ask if they are still surprised by what is being found.

[Devil_Fish]

10. Any scientist who is baffled is not a good scientist. K&R NT