Tears: Seafood restaurant done after 19 years — NO fresh shrimp, oysters since oil disaster

[Generic Other]

Run time: 03:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Sx7jpdbVo   Posted on YouTube: January 29, 2011 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 53   Posted on DU: January 31, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 3541

 
Another business out due to oil spill, Fox 10, January 28, 2011: http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/gulf_... ...Garner Bosarge has successfully served up fresh seafood at Kicker's Seafood for 19-years. Then the oil spill happened. "All my seafood comes from Bayou La Batre. It comes from the Gulf. Thirty to forty percent of the people will not eat the seafood," Bosarge explained. ... Since the oil spill happened, the seafood cooler hasn't had any fresh shrimp, oysters, and not a single flounder on ice. Shrimpers and fishermen weren't allowed to fish, and most people didn't want to take the risk and eat food from the tainted Gulf. ... Ironically, while our crew was at the restaurant, a Gulf Coast Claims Facility representative called the Bosarge family to ask if they had been paid. The family says that has never happened before.

[Xenotime]

1. So sad to see others suffer because of others greed.

[Charleston Chew]

2. Not the most well worded comment I have read.

[fascisthunter]

4. do you have a problem with the writing or the point being expressed?

[TheEuclideanOne]

8. And yours is?

Aside from the pure stupidity of taking the time to even write that comment, you would not want to have an english teach come by here to grammar check what you wrote, even if it is less than one full sentence long.

You remind me of those teabaggers holding up misspelled signs about speaking english.

[Charleston Chew]

14. Laugh Out Loud!

[NBachers]

9. An Unwarranted Criticism, Up With Which I Will Not Put!

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Trickle down economics for the masses

x(

[JHB]

5. So the claims guy happens to call when the news crew is there...

Amazingly amazing! What a surprise!

[simon1012]

6. what happen to the oil fryer?

Don't get me wrong! I feel bad for these people.
But looking at their oil fryer, I wonder how long they haven't clean it and how they pass the health inspection check?

[Michigan-Arizona]

7. Yep, that was my first thought as well when I seen that fryer n/t

[Raster]

18. Don't get you wrong...

...too late.

[madfloridian]

10. To those making light of this gulf tragedy...

I wonder at the motives.

[Enthusiast]

13. Me too. I thought the very same. nt

[Botany]

11. Maybe American Petroleum Spokes Model Brooke Alexander can stop by ..

....



They now are trotting her back out after rolling her in after the
gulf oil disaster ..... she is talking about the good American jobs made
by deep drilling.

I will be many years before they can safely harvest seafood from many
areas along and in the gulf.


BTW $50,000 will only pay some bills but not keep the business I
hope they learn to cook some other Cajun or southern food.

[Enthusiast]

12. We don't need no stinkin' regulations.

:sarcasm:

[reggie the dog]

15. i hope the claim gets paid

small businesses being killed by big businesses, who could have imagined?????

[The Wielding Truth]

31. " tens of thousands of victims are waiting for final payments "

By HARRY R. WEBER
Associated Press


NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP's decision to resume paying dividends rankled Gulf Coast residents Tuesday who saw it as another sign the company wants to move on even though many are still suffering from last year's massive oil spill.

Oil stains linger in marshes along Louisiana's fragile coast and tens of thousands of victims are waiting for final payments from a $20 billion compensation fund, while a large number of people haven't received any money at all.

The 7 cents per ordinary share payable to BP shareholders March 28, or about $1.25 billion overall, isn't a lot by BP's standards - it's half what the company paid investors for the final quarter of 2009 - but Gulf residents frowned on the idea of going back to business as usual.

"BP has so much money that we can't really fathom it, but BP has to take care of its obligations to us," said Pass Christian, Miss., shrimper Bobby Barnett.

Barnett said London-based BP still owes him compensation, which he has filed for, for damages from a shortened season after the spill halted shrimping in some areas for much of the summer. He's also worried about the long-term effect on Gulf seafood from the dispersants BP used to break up the oil.

Read more....http://www.valleynewslive.com/Global/story.asp?S=13948290

[nalnn]

16. First hand account

The Gulf seafood is fine.

[crim son]

19. I can't watch the vid.

What do you mean when you say that?

[nalnn]

20. I can't watch it either.

I made the mistake of assuming that the reason the restaurants are empty is because there are no customers because they are afraid of the seafood from the Gulf. This, due to possible contaminates from oil and or dispersant.

I eat it every week, home grown Gulf fish and shrimp, and it tastes fine and there are no bad health effects.

As for the low supply. What I hear from the fishermen, shrimpers and processors is that they have no stock because demand has bottomed out due to the fear.

[Generic Other]

22. "demand has bottomed out due to the fear"

And this comes as a surprise? You allow big oil to contaminate your waters and endanger the seafood supply, you lose your customers. It's not the customers' fault they don't trust seafood from your poisoned waters. It is not irrational fear. It is caution and clearly justified.

The larger question is what are you going to do about it? Continue to give big oil carte blanche to destroy the environement or are you going to support a healthy and sustainable seafood industry. The lesson here is that you may not be able to have both.

[nalnn]

25. Whait...What?

I allowed 11 men to die? I allowed millions of gallons of oil and gas to spew endlessly spew into the gulf. I lost all the customers because of my poisoned water?

What am I going to do about it? I'm going to eat to survive. I'm going to buy gasoline to continue going to the grocery store so that I and my family can eat.

Perhaps I should be flattered that from the few words I typed in the post up there that you assume so much of me. Gosh! I must be a billionaire. You're right! I'll get right on that. Expect NO MORE OIL coming from the Gulf no later than this time tomorrow OK?


...still holding your breath?

[Generic Other]

33. Sorry I didn't mean you personally ...I meant Gulf coasters collectively

Quite a few want to keep drilling and polluting because they see the economic benefit. And that choice may mean sacrificing the seafood industry as tourists decide not to take chances with their health. I am not going to be lulled into taking risks eating contaminated seafood by those who refuse to believe there is a problem. There clearly is a problem. Oyster beds have died off, wide areas of the Gulf are still off-limits to fishing. Tarballs still wash up on beaches. People still report illnesses. Diluting the toxic crap apparently didn't make it disappear.

These are all problems Gulf coasters must grapple with. You, meaning all of you who live there, are faced with hard choices. Your politicians want to keep drilling, even expand the number of rigs. Big Oil wants to give you little to nothing to compensate you for your losses. BP barely compensated anyone. And they are done paying out claims. Most were denied anyway. The economic forecast is grim for many. None of the problems are going to go away if people just decide to return to the pre-BP spill days of "Drill Baby Drill."

I don't think the outlook is so great unless politicians in the Gulf states can quit pandering to oil companies who are killing your environment and so many people's livelihoods. You can't make the problems disappear by waiting for them to sink out of sight like BP did with the oil. It just keeps getting churned up and washed back on the beach again.

In the end, I suppose the oil companies will get their way while all the little businesses suffer and die. It will take years to lure tourists back to some areas and even more to make them feel like the seafood has a clean bill of health. Anyway, all I am saying is that the hardest hit areas can't blame tourists for being nervous. I wouldn't eat seafood from Alaska's Prince William Sound even 20 years after the fact. Certainly not on Exxon's word.

[crim son]

23. Gotcha.

We are getting conflicting reports about the safety of gulf seafood. Government sponsored science tells us it's fine but at least a few independent testings say that high levels of chemicals have been found in testing samples. I didn't used to be paranoid but I now have no confidence in what I'm told by our government. I wish you good health, however.

[Generic Other]

38. you are not alone in your fears

GULF COAST - A new
nationwide poll shows more than 70 percent of consumers are concerned
about the safety of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico.

The poll was conducted by Louisiana's Seafood Promotion Board.
It also shows about 23 percent of people nationwide aren't eating as much seafood.
About one thousand people were polled online in December.

http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/features/coastal-crisis/videos/vid_881.shtml

[Taverner]

26. Right, and the New York Harbor is safe to swim in, isn't it Mr. Stossel?

[nalnn]

29. Whatever

Tastes fine to me. I'm not trying to sway opinions here. Just stating, as I said, "a First hand account".

[Taverner]

32. Taste has nothing to do with it

You can't taste mercury or many other poisons

[nalnn]

36. I hear ya

I hear where your coming from, but I can't be afraid. We gotta eat and since we live in the affected area, we have to take the bad with the good.

[Taverner]

37. Take care then

And lets hope a good washing removes toxins

[The Wielding Truth]

30. How do you know for sure? What kind of tests were done by independent testers?

[Altoid_Cyclist]

17. I have to disagree with one statement from that interview.

I think there is in fact a rhyme or reason to explain what's happening in the Gulf with all of the claims.

As the first reply said, this is very much about corporate and personal greed. How the hell was someone(Feinberg) who receives money from BP put in charge of the claims process?

These people are having their way of life destroyed both financially and physically by BP, Feinberg and our corporate run politicians.

[DeSwiss]

21. "How the hell was someone(Feinberg) who receives money from BP put in charge of the claims process?"

And not only is his law firm "receiving money," but they are receiving over $850,000 PER MONTH!

Obviously no one in the Obama Administration vetted this prick. Right? :shrug:

On June 16, 2010, it was reported that Feinberg was to run a $20 billion fund to pay claims for the BP oil spill. President Obama said that the $20 billion from BP "will not be controlled by either BP or by the government. It will be put in an escrow account administered by an impartial, independent third party." Obama said he and BP's chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, agreed on having Kenneth Feinberg administer the fund. (Feinberg was also selected by Obama to oversee the compensation of top executives at bailed out banks.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Feinberg#BP_Oil_Spill_Fund">link

A better question to ask might be: Why is it that Obama isn't being held accountable? Or: Why isn't any media outlet asking the Obama Administration about this OBVIOUS CONFLICT OF INTEREST? Or another question they could ask: How is that after all these months of operation, how come only http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/31/bp-compensation-fund-offe_n_816483.html">ONE OUT OF NINETY-ONE THOUSAND claims has received its final claim amount?


- Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe none of this matters. Maybe the Obama Administration DID vet him and like what they saw. He's just like them........

K&R

[Altoid_Cyclist]

28. You read my mind.

I almost mentioned President Obama, but I didn't want to get anything started.

This whole crime has either been grossly mishandled or it's playing out according to the script. Either way, President Obama, Feinberg and BP are getting a free ride with no questions being asked or answered by the people responsible.

The fact that so many Americans seem to think that everything is just fine and dandy in the Gulf is beyond comprehension. All shall kneel before the corporate owned politicians and media.

[Generic Other]

34. Obviously not everyone thinks it is fine and dandy

because we have "first hand accounts" on this very thread that seek to assure us all is well. The argument is that over reacting tourists are creating economic problems by avoiding the area out of "undue fear."

So whose fault is it that businesses are closing their doors? The tourists' imagined fears or the very real health and safety issues? Of course they won't test the seafood in any kind of substantive fashion to alleviate concerns, so how can anyone really know for certain. Sniff testing seafood for oil and chemical contamination is ludicrous. Real scientific testing is needed. Local college students could do better job than sniff tests. If they can't convince the public the danger has passed, the families that rely on a healthy Gulf for their livelihood will suffer.

I don't understand why BP isn't paying to test the seafood. I don't see how they can weasel out of recompensing people whose lives they disrupted. I don't see why they aren't being held criminally liable. etc etc etc.

I am with you. It is a crime. And I bet the criminals don't eat the local seafood. They know better.

[aggiesal]

24. I really feel sorry to see this happening ...

BUT Mississippi votes Republican, and I'll bet they voted republican,
and said nothing while they chanted "DRILL, BABY, DRILL".

[go west young man]

27. The real headline should read....

"Fox News who advocate for the right wing and the oil industry and less regulation
do a story on a business that they essentially helped put out of business."

[Generic Other]

35. and leave enough ambiguity in the reporting that some

blame the tourists for the lack of business rather than the lack of uncontaminated seafood available to sell.