Haha, same concept can be applied to shrimp. People kill me when they talk about how the shrimp production in Calcasieu Lake is nothing like it was back in the 80s or early 90s. That's 'cause the saltwater was killin the marsh ya' DUCK! Shrimp eat dead vegetation, Cameron-Creole was largely fresh marsh and the salt water intrusion from the modifications to the ship channel were killing it.
Sorry, I digress......
Yeah, you're right Tarpon, there are a lot of factors that go into land loss. Oil exploration is a big part of that. You can't expect to take something out of the ground, create this big cavity, and nothing happen. The oil field canals and trenasses make salt water intrusion even worse. I know some studies have pointed out that salt water intrusion isn't a big factor in wetland loss, but I think that's a load. You get enough salt water moving very quickly into an area that had very little and you're going to lose vegetation to salt burn. Then combine that with the highly organic soils of the deltaic region, and you get some major land loss, like we see today.
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