Seafood Safety Hearing-Washington DC 8/19:
Acy Cooper & Dean Blanchard
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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is before the Plaquemines Parish community for a Q&A session involving long term restoration of the Louisiana coast and Mississippi river delta in relation to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a few of the testimonies of local people from the Parish. The meeting was held in Buras, LA on August 5, 2010.
Watch what you say Acy? Is this for real?
United Commercial Fisherman's Association President George Barisich, Captain Mike Frenette, and Frank Davis on Sunday edition consider how the oil buried beneath the surface of the Gulf will affect the spawning and reproduction of marine life. Consider how Corexit, the toxic contaminant used by BP in defiance of EPA Director Lisa Jackson could impact estuaries, marshes, juvenile fish, shrimp, crabs, oysters and and other Gulf of Mexico wildlife. BP has denied requests for seafood testing.
Clint Guidry, Louisiana Shrimp Association, on how the oil spill is causing dire consequences for the Louisiana fishermen.
In this first part in a series of videos on the Gulf Coast oil spill, the WSWS interviews Dean Blanchard, the owner of a shrimp processing and distribution company located in Grand Isle, Louisiana. Like many others, his business has been ruined by the oil spill that has contaminated the Gulf of Mexico and largely destroyed shrimping and fishing in the region.
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Part 3
George Barisich, President of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, stops by to drop off some shrimp from his last trip of the season.