Al Jazeerajust published an amazing report on the after - effects of the BP oil disaster , and it ’s not pretty . There are an alarming identification number of deformities in sea creatures : mutated shrimp , angle with sore and lesions , eyeless crabs and more . It ’s unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen .
How bad is it?
The result that the oil spillage and its foolhardy cleanup has on ocean life sentence is frightening , damning and deplorable . Here ’s a listing of deformities that Al Jazeera found in its story :
Shrimp with tumors on their heads
Shrimp with defects on their gill and “ shells escape around their gill and head ”
Shrimp without centre
Shrimp with babies still attached to them
sightless fish
Fish without eye - sockets
Fish without covers on their gills
Pisces with big pinkish masses hanging off their eyes and lamella
crate of blue crabs , all of which were lacking at least one claw
Crab with holes in their shells
Crabs with shells that have no spike or claws or misshapen claw
Crabs that are dying from within
The fisher , scientists , and seafood C.P.U. who talked to Al Jazeera are all in unison : They ’ve never seen this before . Some have worked in and around the Gulf for over 20 years , and most have regard 1000 and one thousand of Pisces . This is the first time they ’re seeing the mass chromosomal mutation and devastation of seafood .
And it ’s not just the obvious deformities . Tests of the oysters that wind up on our plates have shown elevated story of nickel and vanadiumaccording to the Natural Resources Defense Council . And the panel ’s still out on arsenic , cadmium , wind and mercury levels .
When did this start?
Prior to the spill , only one tenth of one per centum of Gulf fish had lesions or sore on them . After the tumble , according to the University of South Florida , many locations showed 20 percent of fish have lesions with as much as 50 percent in other area .
What exactly is the cause?
Dr. Jim Cowan of Louisiana State University believe that chemicals bid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ( PAHs ) , which the EPA terms as “ a group of semi - volatile constituent compounds that are present in primitive petroleum that has spend prison term in the ocean , ” are causing the majority of trouble . Fish and other sea creatures are being uncover to PAHs , which affect both the immediate health of the Pisces the Fishes itself and the dupe ’s genome .
On top of that , the dispersants used to make clean up the oil spillway are do it to be toxic to world . Symptoms of exposure admit “ headaches , emesis , diarrhea , abdominal pains , chest pains , respiratory organisation damage , cutis sensitisation , high blood pressure , central nervous organization depression , neurotoxic effects , cardiac cardiac arrhythmia and cardiovascular damage . ” Even more damningly , it can disturb the growth and developing of a foetus .
basically : BP is cleaning up a spillway with Lucy in the sky with diamonds , and playact surprised when the story disappears .
The government has lost control
The FDA , EPA and NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ) all refused to comment on the awfulness that ’s happening in the Gulf . BP , the company who created this mess in the first blank space , reject to take the blame , order the seafood in the Gulf is “ as safe now as it was before the accident . ” The evidence , of course , point otherwise .
What happens next?
The Gulf of Mexico provides almost half of the seafood caught in the US ( 40 % ) . With its inhabitants dying or suffering mutations before they ’re caught , it appear like seafood shortages are inevitable . According to various fishermen , browned shrimp stop has dropped by two - thirds , white shrimp have been wiped out and some fisherman ’s seafood catch are ten percent of what they normally are . Seafood , as America knows it , has deepen . And without the right funding or commitment or BP live with the blame , these event might last longer than anyone thinks .
Darla Rooks , a lifelong fisherperson from the Gulf , tell it better :
“ We ’re go forward to attract up oil in our nets . Think about losing everything that makes you happy , because that is exactly what fall out when someone spills rock oil and sprays dispersants on it . People who live here know well than to swim in or eat what comes out of our waters . ”
The cure may not have been worse than the disease . But it see like it was nearly as bad . [ Al Jazeera , Daily Comet , WSJ , Local 15 TVvia@joeljohnson ]
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