BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Food Chain Disaster
Here is a list of quotes we compiled from around the web about BP's Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill:
"We're facing sort of a grim reaper. You know – it's sitting out there – it's a big monster – sitting out there waiting to gulp us up. How much of this can we handle? Waiting and wondering what tomorrow is going to bring." - Mitch Jurisich (Third-Generation Louisiana Oysterman) (Link)The spill "will affect the Gulf, and possibly the entire North American region, for maybe years, if not decades." - Rowan Gould, Acting Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Link)"For some animals, even if they don't die from the exposure, they can squirrel away those chemicals and survive. Anything that eats them could then get a concentrated dose of that (chemical)." - Lisa Suatoni, Natural Resources Defense Council (Link)"The dispersant increases the exposure to oil by creatures that live in surface water or feed at the surface, including algae, billions of fish eggs, jellyfish and whale sharks; or those that live on the sea floor like sea squirts, shrimp, blue crabs, lobsters and oysters. The oil droplets look like food, the same size as algae to the filter feeders such as oysters. These droplets can also clog up fish gills." - Dr. Reese Halter, Cal Lutheran University (Link)
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are
putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume." - Tony Hayward, BP Chief Executive Officer, May 14, 2010 (Link)
"These waters should be jumping with fish and shrimp and there's just nothing there. I've been fishing here for 25 years and I've never seen anything like this. It's very, very sad. You'd normally look out here and see dozens of fishing and shrimping boats fishing. Now it's just us." - Frank Lensmyer (Link)
"This is a disaster on many levels. About 90 per cent of gulf fishing is dependent on these wetlands. Fish spawn here, blue crabs and other sealife which are a key part of the food chain rely on the marshes, the oyster and shrimp populations rely on healthy wetlands." - Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) (Link)"The impact on the food chain will be felt for many years." - Dr Martin O'Connell, director of fish research at the University of New Orleans (Link)Words:
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