Gulf shrimp are scarce this season, as are answers

'A lot of people say it's this, it's that, it's too hot, it's too cold, it's BP ... we just don’t know'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44855346/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/

LAFITTE, La. — The dock at Bundy’s Seafood is quiet, the trucks are empty and a crew a fraction of the normal size sits around a table waiting for something to do. But the most telling indicator that something is wrong is the smell. It smells perfectly fine.

“There’s no shrimp,” explained Grant Bundy, 38. The dock should smell like a place where 10,000 pounds of shrimp a day are bought off the boats. Not this year. In all of September, Bundy’s Seafood bought around 41,000 pounds.

White shrimp season began in late August, and two months in, the shrimpers here say it is a bad one, if not the worst in memory. It is bad not just in spots but all over southeastern Louisiana, said Jules Nunez, 78, calling it the worst season he had seen since he began shrimping in 1950. Some fishermen said their catches were off by 80 percent or more.

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Whistling past the graveyard.

:sarcasm:

And yes, I know, there could very well be other factors in the 80% drop off, but fifty gazillion gallons of crude being dumped into the water might play a part, no?

PB

:grr:

could it rebuild?

I think BP sponsors it.

I can see no way that the people on the Gulf can get justice.
BP is hiding behind our own Administration, our own courts.

Seems like stores are not displaying specific points of origin, used to, now just USA.

Some oysters which I have recently had have had very oily mud in the hinges and black fluid suspended in the 'liquor'.

We are utterly betrayed.

Even if a more specific origin is given, I don't know if I can trust the information.

Yes, we are betrayed, from our government on down.

:hi:

the other only discovered in the last two, it was shuck and go.

Like I needed another reason to hate capitalism....

in the southern region to "study" the effects of their damage.

Thanks for the thread, Javaman.