News from the Seafood Capital, with 3 videos

[infrogmation]

AP news: Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible. An oiled beach can be cleaned or replaced. Wetland marsh is another story. Louisiana's coast is mostly wetland marsh. This is where Gulf shrimp come to breed. Fish, oysters, crabs... If you like seafood, I suggest you enjoy some now. If the prices seem high today, they're going to seem like a bargain soon.

Two video examples of putting a human face of what is happening in South East Louisiana.

AP video on YouTube: AP correspondent Jason Bronis toured the Louisiana marshland with a long-time charter boat captain who was surprised by the devastation he saw.

Ron Price: "All of this, is just going to wither away, in no time. [...] BP doesn't have enough money to make it good."

WWL TV video: Oil spill halts 94-year-old fisherman's business, but not his drive.

Eugene Bartholmy survived the Great Depression, Leander Perez, and rode out Katrina in lower Plaquemines. When he says "It’s going to be rough for the people," listen; the man knows rough.

Interview with the President of Plaquemines Parish, YouTube: Billy Nungesser: Twenty-four miles of Plaquemines Parish is destroyed. Everything in it is dead.

"The time now is to do everything physically possible to protect these marshlands. [...] You either protect them, or they're lost forever".

(For the benefit of any bozos who want to try to make a partisan spin on the disaster, Nungesser is a Republican, so it's safe to take your fingers out of your ears and open your eyes for this video.)

Remember, this is only just beginning.

Comments

[padiwack.livejournal.com]

As much as I would rather NOT dwell on this, I thank you for your informative posts.

[twillis.livejournal.com]

Same here, thanks for keeping us informed.

Himself has been thinking about the price of seafood, and making a point to buy more than usual at one of our local suppliers here in Kansas City. When he stopped in Friday to grab some oysters, they actually gave him extra, because apparently people here are already starting to worry that "there's oil in it". Not sure how widespread that fear is already, but it's very depressing.

Seafood

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Last week I was in St. Bernard. Fishermen were harvesting what they could in the few areas not yet closed off. I'm sure it's the same story around the area, for those who can still get to unaffected fishing areas, which are rapidly becoming fewer.

There was one incident of a boat that brought in oiled shrimp from an area that the oil wasn't supposed to have reached yet; the catch was dumped and the area closed.

Any that gets to market should be good.

Might be some of the last days for one of the few major products we don't have to import from China...

Re: Seafood

[twillis.livejournal.com]

Which in turn makes me wonder if places like our local joint will also be doomed, if the gulf is one of their major suppliers, which for us would mean no fresh seafood here in KC. Which I guess sounds like a selfish way to look at it, but really what I what to say is that this is not going to be a local to the gulf issue.

Re: Seafood

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

BP representative Randy Prescott: “Louisiana isn’t the only place that has shrimp.” (http://thelensnola.org/2010/05/24/five-years-after-katrina-the-return-of-disaster-capitalism/)

Mr. Prescott: FY, YFF.

Re: Seafood

[twillis.livejournal.com]

That's just beyond evil.

[plinko.livejournal.com]

Yes. Your posts are sometimes hard to read... Because they contain so much heartbreaking truth. Nonetheless, please never stop posting.