A new Gulf Fishing Season Commencement Asks Better Seafood Testing
The Gulf disaster is highly known all over the world not just in the region and in Americas, therefore, every single nation has its eyes on the way the authorities handle the situation. As it is high time for the beginning of the fall shrimping season, the Gulf of Mexico and Alabama State reopened its gates to fishing.
What did actually happened in this case? Well it deals with the spill that began after an April 20th explosion and that killed 11 people on the platform Deppwater Horizon. After two days only did the platform sank and therefore, started to gush oil into the Gulf, before being temporarily capped on July 15th.
Anyhow, very deep control of water and of seafood is needed before the beginning of the fishing period. Therefore, letters were sent in this regard by the National resources and Defense Council to the Food and Drug Administration and to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By these letters they demand that these agencies make a comprehensive monitor of the seafood contamination, ensures public disclosure of all seafood monitoring data and the methods that are used to monitor them and as well ensure that the re opening of the fishing process will protect the most vulnerable part of the population, such as children and pregnant women.
“The government needs to show it is putting strong safety criteria and testing standards in place to ensure that the seafood from the Gulf will be safe to eat in the months and years to come.” lets us know Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior Scientist with the National Resources Defense Council.
It was decided weeks ago, that waters will be opened to fishermen when they are under perfect protection and as long as the U.S. officials could guarantee that seafood could pass the test of eligibility and safety. This is due to what happened in the Gulf weeks ago, the worst oil spill in the U.S. history.
Despite of this fact and despite of the interdictions that are taking place, people cannot survive with no fishing opening that is why probably the authorities thought of opening the shrimp season. Anyhow, they are not yet satisfied, as “It’s open down over here with small shrimp, where it should be open over there where the big shrimp are,” Bourgeoif said. “Can’t make no money with no little shrimp, man.” He even though of going out but anyway, no matter how much would h take out, it will eventually be dumped as the inspectors will not offer him the authority of selling it. Therefore, it would be a good for noting work and just a way to kill time.
According to the recent studies performed at the University of South Florida, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill is likely to have settled to the bottom of the Mexico Gulf, eastern that it was firstly believed that it will be and at such levels that affect the marine life.
Many organisms at the food chain, including Plankton, have showed that there was a strong response to the crude and the oil is expected to resurface later. The dispersant does not do a good thing either, at least for the marine life that is found in very deep waters.
Anyhow, according to a government report that was released two weeks ago, just a mere 26 percent from the oil spilled remains in the Gulf, as the rest was taken out, that is to say 74 percent of the total of 4.9 million barrels that leaked into the Gulf. The officials as well say that from the 26 percentage, the vast majority is about to be degraded and cleaned up to the shore.
Their calculations are made in their own interest but they however are not right. It is easy to notice the difference between the 74 percentage out of the total 4.9 million barrels and the actual 800,000 barrels that were taken out from the well before it could spill into the Gulf. This results in the fact that more than it is actually said, exists in the water.
We should not belief that the oil is actually gone from the water. This is a misconception, as the oil will not be gone from the water until years pass by. The thing with the oil that is still in the water is that it is not sizeable such as the first huge clumps that first appeared on the Gulf as being black and brown acne weeks ago. After all this was at first then it all just dispersed into the water and it is not as sizeable but it can be just as harmful.
According to a professor of the marine science from the University of Georgia, Samantha Joyce, NOAA forgot to mention a third of the hydrocarbons as they did not measure up the gas emissions.
At the moment it is essential that engineers know how to act and to manage the risk of pressure into the annulus – the ring that surrounds the casing pipe at the center of the well shaft. They have therefore begun the tests in order to gauge the effects that the mud and the cement poured into the well have. As they have sized some cement into the annulus they believe that it may have breached the casing pipe or that it just came up into the annulus from the bottom.
They have to figure out a possibility to maintain the pressure within the well before starting the “bottom kill” procedure. This procedure implies sealing the well from bellow. Anyhow, they cannot start until they are certain of the fact that this thing can be done and that they are able to manage the risk of pressure into the annulus.
Everything should be done very carefully as there is no need to rick to have things gone at a worse level than they already are.
