Despite the best efforts of the folks in charge to ruin the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem via a deliberately-blown-up oil well in 2010, things are looking pretty great down there, as you’ll see in the data below.
[Whether that event ever happened is now doubtful, since the only evidence offered could only have been deliberately leaked from wells close to shore and because the entire subject was dropped shortly before the Fukushima nuke plant was sabotaged . In both of those cases, the official liars stridently insisted that they would cause life on earth to end, haha. ~D]
And they went for it again just a couple months back: “ A Shell oil facility has leaked nearly 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, according to federal authorities .”
[Crude oil is a natural substance that is reabsorbed by the sea in a fairly short time. Nature doesn’t poison itself. ~D]
I don’t know about you, but I don’t consider 90,000 gallons a “ leak ”. That is, rather, pouring, a river, a gusher. You’ve got to work at getting 90,000 gallons of oil from containment vessels into the Gulf.
You’ll see all the standard tactics in play, below, including the Feds harming fisherfolk citizens as hard as they can under the thin guise of “ saving the snappers ”:
“ Feds crush Alabama fisherman with another short Red Snapper season .”
While the wholly-controlled-and-coopted mainstream press supportively pretending it’s the oil spill that’s messing with the fishermen:
“ Gulf Fishermen Still Struggling Five Years After the BP Spill ”.
When the truth is that “the red snapper population in the Gulf is expanding in some areas to levels not seen in decades.”
Oh, and the shrimp are doing great, too: “Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Landings Hit New Highs.” In fact, “The Gulf’s shrimp catch increased from about 9.5 million pounds in July 2014 to 10.5 million in July 2015.”
Well, will you look at that! They didn’t do the math! Because printing the percentage increase would be stronger and more impactful than simply saying “ increased ”. They went with the most conservative thing they could have possibly said because they don’t want to go off message re: Poor Mother Gaia dying, and all.
[These corporate parasites apparently can’t kill the earth without perhaps using antimatter and I suspect they’re trying their best to do that and also failing. ~Don]
That’s an increase of just over 10%, in just one year. Of course, prices drop when supply exceeds demand: “Last year for the little shrimp we’re catching now we were getting like $2 a pound, and now all we’re getting is 55 cents."
But the Media, being wholly-controlled-and-coopted, and all, spins it that “ Asian Shrimp Imports Are Chewing Up U.S. Suppliers .”
Now, nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime over in Asia, just like it is in the Gulf of Mexico. But I would suggest that “Asian imports” half-truth is tabled in this context to take your eye of the “Gulf of Mexico is doing great” ball.
[Shrimp from Asia would need to be shipped by air, which is outrageously costly for them under the circumstances. ~D]
The great news – besides nature booming and burgeoning in the Gulf of Mexico, and over in Asia – is that the states are taking matters into their own hands: “This year, all five Gulf states will hold “state-water” snapper seasons that run outside the federal season.”
So I’m not the only one who’s noticed that the Fox is in the Henhouse, that Poor Mother Gaia is not dying.
We’re gonna be out the other side of this before most of the populace even realizes it’s happening, at all.
[I also suspect that the pajama people who make up the vast majority of our species will never know or care that the corporate world order has eventually been exposed and eradicated but that doesn’t make the victory any less sweet for me. ~D]
April 13, 2013 – Gulf oil spill’s effects still has seafood industry nervous | Tampa Bay …
Louisiana. Scientists are still probing potential problems with crabs and shrimp
April 20, 2015 – Gulf Fishermen Still Struggling Five Years After the BP Spill
May 15, 2015 – There’s little question the number of red snapper and other popular fish haveexploded in recent years
May 25, 2015 – April Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Landings Hit New Highs
May 25, 2015 – “Last year for the little shrimp we’re catching now we were getting like $2 a pound, and now all we’re getting is 55 cents ,” said Nicholas Rodrigue, a shrimper from Dulac.
August 26, 2015 – The Gulf’s shrimp catch increased from about 9.5 million pounds in July 2014 to 10.5 million in July 2015.
September 7, 2015 – Asian Shrimp Imports Are Chewing Up U.S. Suppliers - Bloomberg
April 9, 2016 – Houston, TX - Snapper anglers have reason to see red
At nine days, the season will equal the shortest red snapper season recreational anglers fishing from private boats have seen; the 2014 recreational season was nine days , one day shorter than the 10-day 2015 red snapper season for anglers fishing federally controlled waters from private boats.
The seeming illogic of such increasingly draconian restrictions on recreational anglers, especially when all evidence - empirical and anecdotal - indicates the red snapper population in the Gulf is expanding in some areas to levels not seen in decades , underscores just what a convoluted and contentious train wreck red snapper management has become over the past 20-plus years.
States weigh in
This year, all five Gulf states will hold “state-water” snapper seasons that run outside the federal season.
April 27, 2016 – Feds crush Alabama fisherman with another short Red Snapper season…