Wow, This information sounds SOOOOO drastic. I will imediatly build a
time machine and return to a time when there was no offshore drilling in
the Gulf of Mexico. The increased harvest of commercial fish that is now
happening must be stopped. I will tell the People on their soap boxes
that were saying death to the sea if we drill there that the narrow
minded people of the future are here to help them stop the drilling. I
will also buy a large supply of plugs and go around the world plugging
the cracks in the earth that leak the equivalent of TWO Exxon Valdeese
tankers of oil into the sea every day. I now see that this is killing
the world.
Farmer Paul
A beautifully formulated response teeming with evidence to substantiate
the notion that burning oil is a vital requirement for life to
continue............................(if we were in the 5th grade).
I really don't think I should spend the 2 minutes it takes to research
and acquire facts to refute your ridiculous testimony of, "oil, it does
a body good". But I will anyway.
http://www.offshore-environment.com/abandonment.html
http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/threats.htm
"In particular, observations in the Gulf of Mexico revealed a strong
positive correlation between the amount of oil platforms, growing since
the 1950s, and commercial fish catches in the region. It became one of
the reasons to suggest the positive impact of offshore oil and gas
developments on the fish populations and stock. Wide popularization of
this fact led to the mass movement using the slogan "From rigs - to
reefs" in the USA in the mid-1980s.
However, further analyses of the fishing situation in the Gulf of Mexico
showed that the growth of the fish catch in this case was connected not
with increasing the total stock and abundance of commercial species but
with their redistribution due to the reef effect of the platforms. A
critical point here was the use of static gear methods of fishing (e.g.,
lines and hooks) instead of trawl gears. Besides, the areas around the
platforms became very popular places of recreational and sport fishing.
This also made a significant contribution to the total catch
volumes.........."
"Pursuant to the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996, the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS <http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov>) must publish a
Report to the United States Congress
<http://www.gulfcouncil.org/downloads/Status%20of%20Fisheries%202001a.pdf>
on the status of our nation's fisheries resources. This report assesses
the condition of the 905 managed fish species in U.S. waters. Of these
905 species, the report finds that 72 are being taken at a rate that
this higher than can be sustained ("overfishing"), 92 are below a level
that scientists consider healthy ("overfished"), and the status of 709
species (78.3 percent) is unknown. Thus, for the species on which we
have scientific information, about 50 percent are either undergoing
overfishing, currently overfished, or approaching an overfished
condition, meaning that they will become overfished in two years if no
action is taken.
In the Gulf region, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
<http://www.gulfcouncil.org> has 57 species under its direct management.
Of these 57 species, over half of the species we have information for (6
out of 10) are considered "overfished". This list includes red snapper
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/red%20snapper%20FS.PDF>, red
grouper <http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/Red%20Grouper%20FS.PDF>,
red drum, Nassau grouper
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/NASSAU%20GROUPER%20FS.pdf>,
goliath grouper
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/GOLIATH%20GROUPER%20FS.pdf> and
greater amberjack
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/Amberjack%20FS.PDF>. Gag grouper
is considered "approaching an overfished condition." Furthermore, four
out of eight species in the Gulf region are also subject to
"overfishing". These include red
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/red%20snapper%20FS.PDF> snapper
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/red%20snapper.pub>, red grouper
<http://www.healthygulf.org/fisheries/Red%20Grouper%20FS.PDF>, gag
grouper, and vermilion snapper. The majority of Gulf species (47) are
considered of unknown status.
NMFS <http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov> also directly manages a number of
species in the Gulf region including sharks, tuna, and billfish. Of
these species, all of the billfish for which we have information are
overfished, including blue marlin, white marlin, and sailfish. Three out
of the four tuna species in the Gulf are overfished, including bigeye
tuna, albacore and bluefin tuna. Finally, 16 out of the 22 shark species
for which information is available are considered overfished. These
include sandbar, blacktip, dusky, spinner, silky, bull, Caribbean reef,
tiger, lemon, sand tiger, bigeye sand tiger, nurse, scalloped
hammerhead, great hammerhead, whale, and white sharks. Thus, of the 29
fish species for which scientific information exists to assess the
health of the population, 22 are classified as "overfished."
If you have something worthwhile to report to this list, we are
waiting...............
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