It’s taken almost six weeks since the Deepwater Horizon blew up, killing 11 workers and ever since spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) now has a couple
Continue Reading NOAA Ships Looking for Underwater Oil Plumes
Sample test results of oysters and water will be on the agenda today when the Louisiana Oyster Task Force meets in New Orleans. It comes a day after the federal government reportedly issued a fisheries
Continue Reading Feds Declare Gulf Fisheries Disaster
Gulf watermen, be they out for shell or fin fish, did not get the news they wanted over the weekend as the colossal BP could not fill the hole spilling oil off the Louisiana coast.
A look at how petroleum impacts the seafood chain–and, what would happen to you if you ate an oil-tainted oyster?
“Crude oil has many, many chemicals in it. Most of the chemicals are considered organic,
Continue Reading Oil Spill Science: Carcinogens in the Food Chain
NEW ORLEANS–As 200,000 gallons of crude oil continue to flow unabated into the Gulf of Mexico, government officials, seafood industry groups, and food safety experts are working to assure the public that seafood coming from
Continue Reading Gulf Seafood in Commerce Safe to Eat
FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO –Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was first to start closing down the Gulf seafood industry when he put select fishing areas and oyster harvesting beds off limits to both recreational and
Continue Reading NOAA Closes Gulf Spill Area To Fishing
Frozen scallops being sold at supermarkets are contaminated with Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning toxin, the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety announced.
The products involved are pre-packaged frozen half-shell scallops with PSP toxin levels of 114
Oysters harvested from the Gulf of Mexico during the warm months of summer have a high risk of being contaminated with deadly Vibrio vulnificus bacteria. Most healthy people don’t have to worry about that particular
Continue Reading Why the FDA Shouldn't Back Down on Shellfish
Marine biotoxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) have been detected at dangerously high levels in shellfish samples collected from north Puget Sound of Washington State.
The so-called “red tide” toxin levels have been as
Continue Reading Red Tide Puts Puget Sound Shellfish Off Limits
