re: Six Years Ago Today: Deepwater Horizon Explodes

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I have not eaten any kind of seafood since that day. Not even catfish.

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Like any kind from anywhere? Like you wouldn't eat a lobster from Maine? And if you were getting your catfish from the saltwater gulf, I don't blame you for not eating seafood, sounds like you have no idea what's good to eat and what's not.

The Horizon incident had a pretty big affect on me. As someone from coastal LA who loves to fish, and also someone who had a job lined up with an O&G company just waiting to graduate. Luckily I didn't have my job offer pulled. I can't stand the way the oilfield treats our marsh. But I really don't think this oil spill had 1/1000th of a percent of the affect that other things done by the oilfield have done. Cutting all the canals in the marsh killed it. I blame them for that. But the barrier Islands have been disappearing for a very long time. I have definitely fished in a boat places that we used to be able to get out of the boat and walk on land in my lifetime. And that all happened before the spill. To be honest, as far as the immediate affects with how I interact with the gulf, I haven't seen a difference outside of that summer. Don't seem to see lower fish numbers, shrimp numbers, or less birds flying. There may have been a huge affect, but not so much that it can't/hasn't recovered.