[Cog]

This is certainly some good news for the people struggling to make a living in the GOM. Previous apocalyptic visions of a dead GOM and millions fleeing for their very lives, are now being properly consigned to the tinfoil that they are.
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http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/07/o ... -reopened/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced last week that it was reopening one-third of previously closed Gulf of Mexico fishing waters since no oil had been observed in the area for over 30 days.

The 26,388 square miles of the Gulf was reopened to both commercial and recreational fishing on Thursday under a re-opening protocol agreed to by NOAA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Gulf states.

According to a NOAA press release, U.S. Coast Guard observers had not seen oil in the area, which is about 190 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon/BP wellhead, since mid-June and trajectory models showed the area to be at low risk for future exposure to oil. Fish caught in the area and tested by NOAA experts showed no signs of contamination.

[IslandCrow]

1/3rd is a large area. So this is good news.

[Pretorian]

well...? Are they going to sell it as farmed ? Who in his own mind will be buying seafood from the Gulf now?

[IslandCrow]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'W')ho in his own mind will be buying seafood from the Gulf now?

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'w')ell...? Are they going to sell it as farmed ? Who in his own mind will be buying seafood from the Gulf now?

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/usf-scientists-confirm-underwater-plumes-came-from-bp-spill/1110673]USF scientists confirm underwater plumes came from BP spill[/url]

The plumes of oil snaking through the depths of the Gulf of Mexico definitely came from BP's Deepwater Horizon gusher, scientists at the University of South Florida announced Friday.
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While the oil that floats atop the waves decays into tar balls, the oil droplets below the surface stay liquid far longer, Hollander said. The droplets registered on the USF instruments at concentrations just short of the level considered poisonous to humans, he said.

"They're just below toxic," he said.
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Also unknown: the effect on fish, shrimp and other marine life. The microscopic oil droplets could be absorbed by tiny animals at the base of the food chain, eventually contaminating larger creatures.