Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana



"What you see above isn't a rural gravel road. It's a Louisiana waterway, its surface completely covered with dead sea life -- a mishmash of species of fish, crabs, stingray and eel. New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV reports that even a whale was found dead in the area, a stretch of coastal Louisiana hit hard this summer by oil from BP's busted Gulf well.

Fish kills are fairly common along the Gulf Coast, particularly during the summer in the area near the mouth of the Mississippi, the site of this kill. The area is rife with dead zones -- stretches where sudden oxygen depletion can cause widespread death. But those kills tend to be limited to a single species of fish, rather than the broad sort of die-off involved in this kill.

And therein lies the concern of Gulf residents, who suspect this may be yet another side effect of the catastrophic BP oil spill.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser sounded the alarm bells Monday, distributing the photos here to the local media. Nungesser said that no testing is currently planned to determine how the kill may relate to the BP oil disaster, but he pleaded with officials from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to investigate"




"We can't continue to see these fish kills,'' Nungesser said in a statement. "We need some additional tests to find out why these fish are dying in large numbers. If it is low oxygen, we need to identify the cause."

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I am guessing the dispersants used caused this.

yea, that would be my first guess....

....and when the seal was opened, a third of the sea died....

hey hey now. You will get those who are waiting with bated breath for the end of times all excited.

YEA, it gave me a woody... 4 more to go...

See?! What I tell ya?

thas crazy ....thats the first that i have seen actual evidence of what BP has done...i mean yeah you see it on the news and see the footage but it goes to show you just how selective they can be in what they show you. that's ....it's tragic....can they get these zones restored? undo the damage done?

*sighs*

can you imagine the smell? Louisiana will be renamed the 2$ hooker state

They saw a whale and other large mammals (just like us!)...and during the oil spill I recall dolphins jumping out of the water for a breath then back into the water with the oil and dispersants...only later to succumd to the poisons and die slow painful deaths.

I see why Flipper commited suicide*...humans suck.

*yes this is true BTW.

Previously, if anyone missed it:


Revelation 8:8
"The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood."

The Mexican Gulf oil spill:


Anyone wants to know the continuation?

8:9
a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

Well, the OP information is quite disconcerting.

BP pledged 20 billion to compensation and clean up but someone has PLEAD to have this massive kill researched???

It would seem that such a missive kill would provide a quantitative measure from which those funds could be handled/distributed more equitably and honestly.

And then there's the question of how safe it is to allow that area to continue fishing and distributing that product. But if they don't research/study it how would they know.

On the other hand - that amount of money (earning interest) in the hands of any person or group, without adequit oversight, can be a powerful tool in many respects.

So those with that 'power' may have concluded that the funds can be 'conserved' if fishing is allowed to resume and continue which would make the payout (comensation) less.

Scary - I'm glad I don't eat fish. (except for tuna in a can about 4 times a year - but I stocked up as soon as I realized how extensive the oil spill was going to be.)


BP makes 1st deposit in compensation fund
Initial $3B to grow to $20B

Last Updated: Monday, August 9, 2010 | 1:19 PM ET

CBC News
BP has made an initial $3 billion US deposit into what is eventually to be a $20-billion fund to compensate victims of the oil spill at one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company and the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday that they have finished negotiations on the terms for implementing the fund.


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/09/bp-costs-billions.html#ixzz0zfJKdZIW

"3,634 dead birds collected in Gulf, wildlife service says"

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the first time is breaking down the species of oiled birds collected - alive and dead - in the Gulf of Mexico since the April 20 BP well blowout.

As of Tuesday, 4,676 birds had been collected; 3,634 of those were dead. Of the dead birds, 1,226 were visibly oiled.

Of the dead birds, the largest numbers are laughing gulls (1,591), followed by brown pelicans (376) and northern gannets (182).
Live birds are taken to rehabilitation centers in Hammond, Louisiana; Gulfport, Mississippi; Theodore, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florid"



http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/16/3634-dead-birds-collected-in-gulf-wildlife-service-says/?hpt=T2

I just spoke with the head of BP's testing lab. He didn't know about the fish kill. He said they have fish kills in last summer in hot years due to Red Algae getting into the fish's gills.

But since BP apparently is being blamed for it, he will look into it.

Yeah right....thanks for the laugh. If your friend looks into it it'd be for damage control only...BP could care less.

He's not a friend. He is my brother.

Some of us actually have real knowledge outside of the net.

four pounds of dynamite thats how they fish down there

"we do not inheret the earth from our forefathers,
we borrow it from our children..."

some legacy we are leaving them...