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Letter From The Editor: Hallelujah!

By Dan Flynn on July 18, 2010

Reasons to like being in the news business are usually led by the fact that one never knows what is coming and no two days are the same.

At the time when the Deepwater Horizon

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NOAA Expands Closed Fishing Area in Gulf

By Michelle Greenhalgh on July 16, 2010

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico again this week.  The new area includes portions of Louisiana’s federal-state waterline which is located in the northwestern boundary…
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Researchers Develop Speedy Test for Gulf Seafood

By Suzanne Schreck on July 16, 2010

Researchers at Mississippi State University State Chemical Lab have developed new method for testing Gulf of Mexico seafood for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the main oil contaminants that affect seafood.

The lab is working on a

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Congressman Presses FDA on Gulf Seafood Safety

By Suzanne Schreck on July 16, 2010

Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is leading the congressional investigation into the BP oil spill, sent a letter to U.S. Food…
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Gulf Seafood’s Future Remains Unknown

By Dan Flynn on July 7, 2010

Maybe now if the Gulf seafood industry could just see over the horizon, it would be comforted just by knowing what’s really ahead.   Instead, in the 79 days since the Deepwater Horizon blew up, safe…
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EPA Finds Dispersants no More Toxic than Oil

By Helena Bottemiller on July 6, 2010

The chemical being used in the Gulf of Mexico to help disperse the onslaught of oil is no more toxic than oil itself, according to a preliminary government study.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released

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Biden Visits Gulf, Discusses Seafood Safety

By Helena Bottemiller on July 1, 2010

“Sometimes life’s not fair,” said Vice President Joe Biden, as he addressed a small crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana yesterday. “Y’all have been hit with Katrina, Gustav and now the BP oil spill. You’ve been

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Oyster Restoration, Supply, Falls Behind Demand

By Dan Flynn on June 24, 2010

Oyster restoration projects, such as the effort to bring back the native Olympia oyster to some of the inland waters of Southern California, might someday replace Gulf oysters that go missing from the BP oil

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Gulf Area Closed to Fishing Expands

By Dan Flynn on June 22, 2010

As of 5 p.m. local time yesterday, the area of the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing because of the BP oil spill grew by 7 percent to 86,985 square miles. The area closed is

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Gulf Looks For Oyster Replacements

By Dan Flynn on June 14, 2010

Oyster experts are reporting that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a diver down after a lost cage last week, they found the bottom of the Gulf area where they were working covered

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