Mississippi officials find 80 to 90 PERCENT of OYSTERS DEAD — claim NO EVIDENCE OIL CONTRIBUTED
Fish and oysters are turning up dead due to BP spill
Officials from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) voluntarily “took oyster fishermen out on the reefs off the Pass Christian Harbor on Wednesday to give them a preview of what to expect from the upcoming oyster season,” according to Biloxi’s Sun Herald.
What did they find? “An abundance of empty oyster shells… DMR officials dredged for oysters and pulled up catches with about 80 to 90 percent of the oysters dead,” the paper reported.
A sampling of excuses from Scott Gordon, director of the shellfish bureau in Bill Walker’s Mississippi Department of Marine Resources:
- “There have been more oyster mortalities this year, but he doesn’t know whether it can be attributed to the BP oil spill.”
- “We don’t have any evidence that oil has contributed to these mortalities”
- “I’m not as encouraged about this season as I’d like to be.”
- “The weather this summer may be a cause of the oyster deaths, he said.”
- “We’ve had an unseasonably hot summer.”
According to the report, “Some fishermen suspect the oil is a cause for the amount of empty oyster shells dredged up on the DMR trip” :
- Oyster dredger Loe Nguyen: “We’ve lost this season… It’s bad news for the oyster fishermen.”
- “Oyster dredger Minh Tran said it was the first time he’s seen a season like this. He’s been in the oyster business for 10 years.”
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“We don’t know for sure the BP spill had anything to do with it. We had an unseasonably hot summer…”
Only on Planet Bizarro.
The future is here. It’s too late for anything except to strap in and hold on.
I wonder how much it costs to buy off officials from the department of marine resources in Mississippi. How is it possible that these American citizens would lie for a foreign company. Systemic corruption with no bounds? I suspect that our wrath will also know no bounds. Find out where these traitors live and subject them and their families to ridicule and ostracism. Shun them!
INDICT, INDICT, INDICT these dirtbags for not taking direct action against all involved, and for taking public funds to feed their pensions and pay for going along to get along.