The reason: the BP oil spill disaster of 2010, which dumped over 205 million gallons of oil and another 2 million gallons of possibly toxic dispersants into the Gulf, devastating the area that’s responsible for 40 percent of the seafood sold commercially across the U.S. grist.org Read more here 10:57
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
BP’s Deep Water Spill was far from just a Spill it was a “PLANET ALTERING EVENT”. After seeing the effects of “COREXIT” not a dispersant in 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster and 25 years and still holding strong. You would have to ask yourself why you would use “COREXIT”? Corexit combines with the Crude making it sink. So it’s now out of sight out of MIND just like Dr. Jane Lubchenco for allowing BP to use it. This despite our knowledge of Exxon Valdez in 1989.
BP will definitely have to get to the real BOTTOM of this and clean and properly dispose of it.
DON’T LET UP and hold those responsible for their actions.