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This flyer illustrates what oil might look like on the water and on the shorelines of Louisiana
Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response

2 Louisiana oyster areas reopen in Gulf ahead of oil slick from Deepwater Horizon spill
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Louisiana health officials reopened two prime oyster areas today to give harvesters a chance to gather as many oysters as they can ahead of a Gulf of Mexico oil slick that has been spreading west from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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Democracy NOW! – DN! 2/2 The massive BP oil well leak in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the Louisiana coastline as fears grow of a worse disaster than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. 5000 barrels of oil a day continue to spew into the water beneath the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank last week. Published with written permission from democracynow.org. www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. All credits for this video belong to democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.
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Question by Me: Is the gulf oil spill effecting the crawfish in Louisiana?
We need to bring some crawfish to my uncles up North by June 1st. Are the crawfish being effected by the oil spill in the gulf?

Best answer:

Answer by JustCurious
Yes, they will be affected. To what degree will be the question. Depending where you get for crawdads from there may or may not be toxic contamination.

The main line will be the depth of saltwater intrusion. Where ever there is salt water in LA, there will most likely be contamination. Once the salt water makes it up the rivers and flood plains as much as it does if there is fresh water continuing up stream there will most likely be minor contamination.

The rate of the contamination and depth inland will depend on what is done at land/river-sea interface. Communities should start preparing for defense, either bioremediation, nutralization, damming, many ideas should be starting to be come up with. Wait for the government or BP and it will be too late nor can they defend the 300 +/- mi of coast.

SOOOO…. If there are crawdads in a body of water a ways from the coast should be “ok”. Depends when you go for them. I give it 2 weeks before its a ways up some of the water ways.

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Louisiana DHH Announces More Oyster Bed Closures Due to Oil Spill
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced today the closure of oyster harvesting beds west of the Mississippi River as a precautionary response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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