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Crabs found with black gills have some fishermen calling for better testing
Posted:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:32 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:32 PM CDT <NOSCRIPT orgFontSize="10px"></NOSCRIPT><!--END wnDate-->Updated:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:41 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:41 PM CDT
By Al Showers ?
HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Some Hancock County crabbers say their recent catch may be contaminated by oil. Monday, they pulled up dozens of crabs. When they cracked their shells, they found a shocking sight, they can't explain. The gills were tainted black.
"I have never seen anything like this," said Scott Tartavoulle. "There is oil on the bottom out there. The crab is a bottom feeder."
Tartavoulle said he and his friend pulled six crab traps out of the water just north of the Bay St. Louis Bridge, and all the crabs looked the same.
"We think DMR should do a significant amount of testing."
The Department of Environmental Quality has been testing, and though Mississippi waters are now open to fin fishing and shrimping, catching crabs and oysters remains off limits.
Tartavoulle knows that, but doesn't understand it.
"How can one species of shellfish be safe and the other one not? What's the answer to that? Has a biologist looked at it?" Tartavoulle asked.
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Full article:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12921166
Posted:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:32 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:32 PM CDT <NOSCRIPT orgFontSize="10px"></NOSCRIPT><!--END wnDate-->Updated:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:41 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:41 PM CDT
By Al Showers ?
HANCOCK COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Some Hancock County crabbers say their recent catch may be contaminated by oil. Monday, they pulled up dozens of crabs. When they cracked their shells, they found a shocking sight, they can't explain. The gills were tainted black.
"I have never seen anything like this," said Scott Tartavoulle. "There is oil on the bottom out there. The crab is a bottom feeder."
Tartavoulle said he and his friend pulled six crab traps out of the water just north of the Bay St. Louis Bridge, and all the crabs looked the same.
"We think DMR should do a significant amount of testing."
The Department of Environmental Quality has been testing, and though Mississippi waters are now open to fin fishing and shrimping, catching crabs and oysters remains off limits.
Tartavoulle knows that, but doesn't understand it.
"How can one species of shellfish be safe and the other one not? What's the answer to that? Has a biologist looked at it?" Tartavoulle asked.
...
Full article:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12921166