MSNBC's take on 5years after BP..
 

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http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/wat...b_msnbc_native

got to love Dean Blanchard. he always says it like it is.

Exaggerated, anecdotal, unscientific baloney.

The ongoing impact is not zero, but it is pretty small.

The Grand Isle area is beautiful. Great fishing, great seafood, great times.

Gotta keep the ratings up!

anytime you want to take a ride I can show you areas that are hurt bad MG. grand isle and fourchon

No doubt that areas were hurt. But it's a small percentage of the total area. You gotta go out of your way to find the damaged areas.

100% right!!

Like a pin drip in 1000 bails of hay

How can you believe the liberal media anyway?????

be down here for trawling season to see for your self. come look at the nets and see. it is easy to say no damage is done when you are 200 miles away W.

im definitely looking forward to the follow up story on how Obama is stripping money away from funding gulf relief efforts and coastal erosion. that will be a great story to see as they demand Obama explain such stupidity.

wonder when we will see THAT story

And Jindal

The spill impacts are real and continuing. The area around Grand Isle, especially the islands N of 4 Bayou Pass have seen loss of marsh vegetation that hastens the land loss. See pics of dead plants on islands from that area. Ditto about land loss around the 4 Bayou camps.

I am much more concerned about the accelerated pace of the vanishing marsh, as the oil will naturally bi-remediate given the warm environment vs say Alaska. Once the marsh is gone, the nursery is lost.

That said, I was there last month and boats were still picking up tar mats - but only when they wash up. Zero effort has been made to actually recover the mats beyond what low tide produces. ZERO.

Sadly, no actions have been taken to replace the excavated contaminated soils and plants destroyed. Rather, the 'powers that be' seem content to actually let the habitat disappear. Yes, there have been studies upon studies, but no meaningful field work undertaken.

also last year you could not trawl the 12 miles between fourchon and grand isle because there was a tar mat there they new about and did nothing.

As long as it don't effect him, its a pin drip in a 1000 bails of hay. Pretty sad he is the biggest poster on this site.

if it was about the weirs in big lake he would be all over it. because it does not effect him it was just a little thing.

I would love for any of the big mouth experts to come try and trout fish for six months anywhere in SE Louisiana before explaining how it was no big deal.

this was the worst year I had fishing grand isle in 10 years. we caught trout but not near what we normally do.

Some have cited the unusually cold winter as a possible part of the sub-standard fishing this year. Do you feel as though weather could be a factor as well?

It was 4 years after the spill this past summer. It takes a trout 1-2 years to reach 12"s, so wouldnt 2012 and 2013 have been the bad years? I dont deny that there is still some tarballs, but oil is a natural substance and tarballs have been washing up on the beach for a long time

I was prepared to use that excuse, but the overall paucity of fish this past fall and winter realized the fears that numbers are down.

The fishing began well, but the trout simply didn't replenish as the winter season moved on.