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Monday, March 7, 2011

Alert!!!The Gulf Marine Food Chain Is Breaking Down Due To Oil & Dispersant Corexit

By: Evelyn Guzman
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During the BP Gulf oil spill disaster it occured to me that we would be facing a greater problem that would surface gradually piece by piece.As people sat glued by their monitors watching live cam of the oil spilling out day by day .The corexit was being dispersed with the intention of sinking the oil right back down into the bottom of the ocean.From that moment the marine food chain was in the direct path of interruption that would jeopardize every living form of life globally.It all begins with the basic knowledge of how the food web diamatics all work together as one.

Oceanographers have long known that food web dynamics influence fish and bird populations in marine coastal areas.The marine food chain starts with microscopic plants called phytoplankton, which typically float close to the surface where there is sunlight for photosynthesis. Phytoplankton are eaten by slightly larger, more mobile, herbivores called zooplankton, which range in size from single-celled organisms to jellyfish. In turn, zooplankton provide food for krill and some small fish.Phytoplankton are primary producers because they use solar energy to convert CO2 and nutrients into carbohydrates and other molecules used by life. Together, they account for about 95% of the primary productivity in the ocean and about half of all primary productivity on earth.
 
The phytoplankton are eaten by the smallest floating animals, the zooplankton. They range in size from single-celled organisms to larger multi-celled organisms. Small zooplankton are eaten by larger zooplankton. Zooplankton include single-celled animals such as ciliates or amoeboids that never grow large.Copepods ,shrimp, and larval forms of barnacles, molluscs, fishes, and jellyfish, all of which grow to be much larger animals. The copepods are a class of crustaceans with over 7,500 species, most of which are marine. Copepods are small (only a few species over 1 mm) and extremely abundant, often dominating the plankton community. They form a link in the food web between the primary-producing phytoplankton and the plankton-feeding fish like Atlantic herring. Almost all fish found in temperate and polar waters rely at some point in their life cycle on copepods and other shrimp-like zooplankton (krill) as a food source.Zooplankton are eaten by small predators such as shrimp, krill, small fish ,sardines ,menhaden and herring .Birds species such as pelicans, albatross, penguins, and skua would then proceed along the food web.

Comprehending how the food chain works is the key element and alarming nature of it all.If the food chain is interrupted in any way,such as oil plumes lingering at a bottom of the ocean.Each form of life will carry along the oil and dispersant eating agent to the next level of predator in the food chain and thereafter until the last peak on top of the food web has been tainted .Top predators of our food web are jellyfish,squid,octopus,sharks, tuna, and mackerel.Top marine mammals including seals, walruses, dolphins, and some species of whales {some eat fish, others eat zooplankton directly }.The largest and most dominant top predator of the web would be considered "humans" {mankind}.There is direct proof linked to the food chain and that it has be effected by the Gulf oil spill .It really is quit clear,just examine the types of species which have washed up on the Gulf shores.Many fisherman as well as shrimpers have pulled up oil filled,shrimp,crabs,and many other types of bottom feeder creatures.

Menhaden {Small fish} are an Omega-3 rich fish that is not utilized as seafood, but which is abundantly available along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic.On Oct. 20 Omega Protein Corporation the nation's leading producer of Omega-3 fish oil and specialty fish meal products,  announced that it has to date received a total of $18.7 million in payments, net of fees, from the Gulf Coast Claims Facility The GCCF is administering funds paid by BP in connection with reimbursements for claims caused by the Deepwater Horizon disaster. For all that do not know ,Omega Protein Corporation is the nation's largest manufacturer of heart-healthy fish oils containing Omega-3 fatty acids for human consumption, as well as specialty fish meals and fish oil used as value-added ingredients in aquaculture, swine and other livestock feeds. Omega Protein makes its products from menhaden, an Omega-3 rich fish that is not utilized as seafood, but which is abundantly available along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic.


 The reason of why Omega Protein had received  $18.7 million are as follows : (1) the effect of the oil spill on the Company's business, operations and fish catch, both short-term and long-term; (2) the effect of government intervention in connection with the oil spill, including without limitation, any restrictions that may be imposed on navigation and access to the Company's facilities or restrictions on the sale of marine proteins produced from the Gulf of Mexico; (3) the effect of the oil spill, short-term and long-term, on the menhaden fishery or ecosystems supporting that fishery; (4) customer perceptions about marine products from the Gulf of Mexico or the United States due to concerns about contamination or availability; and (5) the amount of further reimbursement, if any, for damages caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is ultimately received by the Company.
 Jelly fish have appeared by the1,000's.Example: February 2011 POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- Beach sweepers were out early Sunday morning picking up hundreds of Portuguese men-of-war that washed ashore in Pompano Beach. On Saturday, beachgoers had to dodge the poisonous seas creatures. Thousands more were floating, alive, in the water. "I thought they were balloons," said Marcella Gomez.The neon-colored blobs first arrived Wednesday, prompting lifeguards to raise their warning flags from Hollywood all the way to Delray Beach. Lifeguards said more than 100 people have been treated for stings.

The larger mammals of the food chain have be appearing deceased on Gulf shorelines over the past few months.Near-record numbers of manatees have died in Florida waters in early 2011.The above-average deaths became alarming .Officials who are also puzzled by a surge in dolphin fatalities along the US Gulf Coast.Of the 163 manatee deaths recorded from January 1 to February 25, 91 of them have been blamed on cold water temperatures off the southern US state, where normally temperate weather draws the protected sea creatures during winter months, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission."Dolphins" are the most recent victims.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared “an unusual mortality event”  when the number of dead dolphins washing up in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida had reached nearly 60, about half of them newly born or stillborn calves. The death toll along the shoreline has climbed to at least 82 since then, many times the normal mortality rate for dolphins along the Gulf Coast this time of year.The grim consequence caused by oil and chemical could only lead to death.This should be the biggest "wake up call" to all humanity,since we hold the title last of the food chain.

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