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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:46 AM

G_j (40,340 posts)

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores

http://gizmodo.com/5903021/bp-oil-spill-aftermath-eyeless-shrimp-clawless-crabs-and-fish-with-oozing-sores

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores

Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it's not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It's unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen.

see: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912.html

How bad is it?

The effect that the oil spill and its reckless cleanup has on sea life is frightening, damning and sad. Here's a list of deformities that Al Jazeera found in its report:

Shrimp with tumors on their heads
Shrimp with defects on their gills and "shells missing around their gills and head"
Shrimp without eyes
Shrimp with babies still attached to them
Eyeless fish
Fish without eye-sockets
Fish without covers on their gills
Fish with large pink masses hanging off their eyes and gills
Crates of blue crabs, all of which were lacking at least one claw
Crabs with holes in their shells
Crabs with shells that have no spikes or claws or misshapen claws
Crabs that are dying from within


..more..

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Reply BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores (Original post)
 G_j Apr 2012 OP
LineReply And, yet, to hear the Gulf states' tourism campaigns:
 Fawke Em Apr 2012 #1
LineLineReply Those are funded by BP
 hootinholler Apr 2012 #5
LineLineReply yep, and I can't wait to eat some contaminated fish!
 quinnox Apr 2012 #6
LineReply Du rec. Nt
 xchrom Apr 2012 #2
LineReply Why is it that Al Jazeera is the only major --
 Hell Hath No Fury Apr 2012 #3
LineLineReply very disturbing
 G_j Apr 2012 #14
LineLineReply We live in a bubble in this country
 underpants Apr 2012 #17
LineReply BP says "The Gulf is 'back'".
 no_hypocrisy Apr 2012 #4
LineLineNew Reply Yeah, I don't know what makes me more upset
 Lifelong Protester Apr 2012 #20
LineReply BP has been telling us online, on the tee vee and in print how the Gulf is back.
 Octafish Apr 2012 #7
LineReply No one could have predicted...
 Scuba Apr 2012 #8
LineReply I worry about drinking the local water
 HockeyMom Apr 2012 #9
LineReply horrible to think about those shrimp entering food supply
 d_r Apr 2012 #10
LineReply They have ruined the public trust.
 felix_numinous Apr 2012 #11
LineReply K&R. nt
 OnyxCollie Apr 2012 #12
LineReply But . . . But . . . that oil eating bacteria!
 caseymoz Apr 2012 #13
LineReply Funny, this report didn't show up on Yahoo's home page or my nightly news.
 rgbecker Apr 2012 #15
LineReply FRY 'EM!!!
 underpants Apr 2012 #16
LineReply it's unbelievable how many people think everything is A-ok there
 jus-theFACTS Apr 2012 #18
LineNew Reply If corporations are indeed people let's give BP the death penalty for what they did.
 Initech Apr 2012 #19
LineLineNew Reply +1000!
 SammyWinstonJack Apr 2012 #23
LineNew Reply a kick
 G_j Apr 2012 #21
LineNew Reply Quelle surprise.
 Ship of Fools Apr 2012 #22
LineNew Reply I have refused to eat ANYTHING from the Gulf of Cheney
 schlagehundenancee Apr 2012 #24
LineNew Reply But but but Haley Barbour
 malaise Apr 2012 #25
LineNew Reply Think about that the next time you go to Red Lobster....
 Jello Biafra Apr 2012 #26
LineNew Reply Back in 2010
 DFW Apr 2012 #27
LineLineNew Reply certainly
 G_j Apr 2012 #28

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:49 AM

Fawke Em (11,366 posts)

1. And, yet, to hear the Gulf states' tourism campaigns:

"Come on in! The water is fine!"

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:01 AM

hootinholler (26,449 posts)

5. Those are funded by BP

Part of the cleanup money allocated.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:03 AM

quinnox (20,600 posts)

6. yep, and I can't wait to eat some contaminated fish!

 

mmm, mmmmm, get me that gulf coast seafood already!

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:49 AM

xchrom (108,903 posts)

2. Du rec. Nt

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:53 AM

Hell Hath No Fury (16,327 posts)

3. Why is it that Al Jazeera is the only major --

 

media outlet to be talking about this?? Oh, yeah!, because we have to lull the American people into thinking it's all OK, and that oil and corexit are GOOD for the Gulf.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 01:54 PM

G_j (40,340 posts)

14. very disturbing

Damn "left wing media"

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 06:00 PM

Star Member underpants (174,448 posts)

17. We live in a bubble in this country

we can have hearing on the outlandish GSA convention but we never mention the missing $23 BILLION in Iraqi

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:54 AM

Star Member no_hypocrisy (41,797 posts)

4. BP says "The Gulf is 'back'".



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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:46 PM

Star Member Lifelong Protester (8,421 posts)

20. Yeah, I don't know what makes me more upset

this corporate sponsored propaganda or those crappy ads that Exxonmobil keeps running about how a 'great teacher changed my life'. Really? How about you petro-creeps do something that would really be amazing-give back your tax subsidies. Give that money to a school system, fund a few school arts programs, do something for education than that ridiculous self-serving propaganda. I HATE THOSE ADS! (Can you tell?)

I feel terribly sorry for those folks on the Gulf, I really do. But these tourism ads, propped up by BP 'settlement money' really frost me.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:06 AM

Octafish (55,745 posts)

7. BP has been telling us online, on the tee vee and in print how the Gulf is back.

Didn't think they meant this, though.

Thanks for the headless BP heads-up, G_j.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:07 AM

Scuba (53,475 posts)

8. No one could have predicted...

 

<a href="http://imgur.com/K88tU"><img src="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" alt="" /></a>

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:10 AM

HockeyMom (14,337 posts)

9. I worry about drinking the local water

 

nevermind eating the seafood, or swimming in the Gulf.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 12:04 PM

Star Member d_r (6,860 posts)

10. horrible to think about those shrimp entering food supply

shrimp without eyes
crawfish pie
file gumbo

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 12:11 PM

felix_numinous (5,198 posts)

11. They have ruined the public trust.

How can we trust agencies that lie to us over and over? These are just the visible signs of mutation, there must be changes in their DNA, and they must be immune compromised.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 12:17 PM

OnyxCollie (9,958 posts)

12. K&R. nt

 

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 12:38 PM

caseymoz (5,763 posts)

13. But . . . But . . . that oil eating bacteria!


The administration assured us the oil was all gone, six weeks after the spill! I remember people on the DU2 forum in the Gulf saying we should all come down and enjoy the food, or they would go bankrupt! Yes, please poison yourself, enjoy our hospitality so we can have your money. Somehow, that wasn't the friendliest invitation I'd ever had.

I remember a woman calling into NPR who said she bought gas from BP so that poor company would have money to clean up the spill! Are we a nation of petro-suckers or what?

Again, on this issue, just like education, global warming, the Iraq war, the Bush tax cuts, and about three dozen government policies and actions taken since 2000, the left was right. Again, the news is so effectively suppressed in the domestic press so that it takes an overseas news organization to break the story. The left predicted this, not because of anti-business bias but because the we're informed of the science. Petroleum absorption is like taking a shotgun to an organism's DNA, and that's just one of its bad effects.

I'm so glad we have a free press, and a free enterprise system to corrupt it.



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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 05:53 PM

Star Member rgbecker (4,756 posts)

15. Funny, this report didn't show up on Yahoo's home page or my nightly news.

WTF?

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 05:54 PM

Star Member underpants (174,448 posts)

16. FRY 'EM!!!

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 06:50 PM

jus-theFACTS (15 posts)

18. it's unbelievable how many people think everything is A-ok there

 

The poison ooze has fucked up the Gulf for a loooong time.

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 07:19 PM

Star Member Initech (95,368 posts)

19. If corporations are indeed people let's give BP the death penalty for what they did.

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 05:58 AM

SammyWinstonJack (44,095 posts)

23. +1000!

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Wed Apr 18, 2012, 11:54 PM

G_j (40,340 posts)

21. a kick

for Swamp Rat who warned us about this, and never believed the government's bullshit concerning the BP "spill".

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:32 AM

Ship of Fools (1,453 posts)

22. Quelle surprise.

Did anyone really think otherwise? Next big *water is wet* story
will involve Fukushima...

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 06:07 AM

schlagehundenancee (28 posts)

24. I have refused to eat ANYTHING from the Gulf of Cheney

 

since the leak.

I knew it would not be safe.

BTW I am a seafood lover but now not so much unless I know where it comes from and how it was handled.

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 06:23 AM

Star Member malaise (252,631 posts)

25. But but but Haley Barbour

said it was A OK and he didn't know why liberals were attacking that saintly company BP.

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 06:27 AM

Jello Biafra (439 posts)

26. Think about that the next time you go to Red Lobster....

Oh, and another thing.....this came from Al-jazerra...if we watch this, it makes us Muslim sympathizers ( ).

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 07:13 AM

Star Member DFW (49,950 posts)

27. Back in 2010

I got blasted, including here on DU, for saying that the spill would have dramatic, long-term
consequences on the marine life, and that they would be felt for years afterward. All was NOT
well with the Gulf marine life.

It still isn't.

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Thu Apr 19, 2012, 10:28 AM

G_j (40,340 posts)

28. certainly

I hear ya, and there were quite a few BP apologisits here...

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