It is going to be difficult for a lot of those commercial fishermen to quantify the damages claimed since a great many sell their catch for cash and never declare these earnings.
Heck yes I’d eat the seafood, AND HAVE! Just a month ago my neighbors (both biology professors) were at their camp in the marsh near Grand Isle and using their trial shrimp trawl (6 feet) to make two drags to catch bait shrimp ended up with bait shrimp for a week and 25 pounds of tails. Their week at he camp was one of bountiful crabs, fish & shrimp.
It would have been nice if the author had even mentioned the huge oil spill caused by Saddam when he opened the valves and let the oil flow from Kuwait to create a spill which was quite a few times larger than the BS estimates by “scientists” and the nutjobs. Nature cleaned itself up rather nicely there as well without a “herd of supertankers” to suck it up.
Thankfully, there has never been any late 60′s/early 70′s LSD ever in my system to call up weird and fantastical hallucinations of environmental disaster.
