Archive for August, 2010
Expert Training: How to Assure Safe Gulf Seafood
Even since BP’s runaway oil well began spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, there has been a growing concern about the safety of Gulf seafood. There is, as a result, unprecedented testing by state and federal agencies and independent laboratories.
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Shrimper Worries About Freshwater Diversion Impacts
For every action, there is a reaction. Gulf fishermen learned that lesson every day as they coped with the constant changes in the management of Gulf waters during the massive BP oil spill, and the unprecedented outflow of the freshwater diversions from the Mississippi River.
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Gulf States Collaborate to Promote Gulf Seafood
Comprised of a broad cross-section of public, private, academic and non-profit leaders including the Louisiana Seafood and Promotion Board, a new coalition is an action-driven, unified voice determined to make sure that the needs of the Gulf Coast are heard in Washington, D.C.
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Marking the 5th Anniversary of Katrina with Accomplishments
While BP’s runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico this year has created widespread hardships among the people of New Orleans and southern Louisiana, nothing has left lasting emotional and physical scars like 2005’s Hurricane Katrina.
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Louisiana Seafood Featured on CBS “The Early Show”
Long-time CBS “The Early Show” anchorman Harry Smith and contributor Katie Lee fulfilled a promise live on nationwide television today by feasting on fresh Louisiana seafood.
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Classic “Catch 22” for Gulf Coast Fishermen: Price and Perception
The late summer-fall white shrimping season along the Gulf of Mexico coast normally gets off to a slow start but quickly picks up in response to demand for the premium wild caught shrimp from groceries, restaurants and consumers across America.
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Oil Spill Seafood Misperception
As shrimp season starts, The Daily Beast tested the Gulf’s seafood for oil and dispersant, and the results were immaculate. If Gulf and Atlantic seafood are equally safe, why won’t America buy?
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Studies Show BP Oil Spill Negatively Impacts Louisiana Tourism
Despite its active, vibrant and available culture, studies show that Louisiana tourism is down as a direct result the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion more than three months ago.
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Louisiana Opens Limited Commercial Crab Fishing
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, in coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ordered an emergency reopening of commercial crabbing in areas west of Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River that were previously closed because of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Louisiana Fishermen Boost Seafood on Capitol Hill
To allay concerns over the state of Gulf seafood after BP’s massive oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, members of the Gulf seafood community were in Washington to testify before a House Subcommittee that not they eat Gulf seafood but so do members of their families.
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Eat it to Save it: America Voting with Forks
New Orleans food activist Poppy Tooker is mad as hell and she’s not going to take it anymore. In June, she was asked to write a blog entry in response to the BP oil spill for Slow Food USA.
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Sea Grant Launches New Seafood Safety Program
Despite the static kill of BP’s runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the spread of oil throughout wide areas of Gulf waters, and the continued assurances of government and non-government agencies, many Americans remained concerned about the safety of Gulf seafood.
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Louisiana Shrimping Season Opens to Weak Market
As commercial shrimpers returned to Louisiana waters in the Gulf of Mexico for the first season since the BP oil disaster, there is concern in the state’s seafood industry over low prices, inconsistent demand and what the near future holds.
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Seafood Gets Intense Safety Testing
Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is being put under the microscope like no other kind on the market, with fish, shrimp and other catches ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil — far more reassuring than that sniff test that made all the headlines, reports the Associated Press.
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NOAA Says No Impact on Seafood Safety
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is reopening fishing waters in the Gulf of Mexico to commercial fishermen, confident that the seafood harvest from those areas is safe despite the BP oil spill.
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