{"id":5911,"date":"2014-08-30T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2021-05-19T01:04:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T01:04:11","slug":"bellona-org-crushing-oyster-harvest-in-gulf-devastating-fishermen-as-science-tries-to-determine-if-oil-or-water-is-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefrelieffounders.com\/drilling\/2014\/08\/30\/bellona-org-crushing-oyster-harvest-in-gulf-devastating-fishermen-as-science-tries-to-determine-if-oil-or-water-is-to-blame\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellona.org.: Crushing oyster harvest in Gulf devastating fishermen as science tries to determine if oil or water is to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fossil fuels<\/a>, Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

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DELACROIX, Louisiana \u2013 Stanley Encalade, 54, an out-of-work oysterman doing odd jobs on boats along highway 300 running through what\u2019s formerly some of the world\u2019s most fertile oyster territory in this state\u2019s St. Bernard Parish, isn\u2019t buying BP\u2019s insistence that fresh water is to blame for the Gulf\u2019s precipitous drop in oyster hauls over the last four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Published on Charles Digges<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n
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DELACROIX, Louisiana \u2013 Stanley Encalade, 54, an out-of-work oysterman doing odd jobs on boats along highway 300 running through what\u2019s formerly some of the world\u2019s most fertile oyster territory in this state\u2019s St. Bernard Parish, isn\u2019t buying BP\u2019s insistence that fresh water is to blame for the Gulf\u2019s precipitous drop in oyster hauls over the last four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s b*llshit, plain b*llshit,\u201d he says while taking a break from working on a dry docked crab vessel. \u201cThat\u2019s what they selling this week, I ain\u2019t buyin like I ain\u2019t been buyin for the last four years \u2013 it\u2019s the oil that wrecked my life, the oil. Not water \u2013 the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Encalade\u2019s generations-honed Cajun tongue pronounces \u201coil\u201d as \u201cearl,\u201d and he takes pride in his heritage among a long line of Cajun fishermen in the Parish.<\/p>\n

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Stanley Encalade, an out of work oyster fisherman in Delacroix, Louisiana. (Photo: Charles Digges\/Bellona)<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I seen in my oyster beds over in Black Bay and it wasn\u2019t no fresh water,\u201d he said, referencing a brackish inlet about 10 kilometers southeast of Delacroix. \u201cIt was orange mixed with sticky tar and it\u2019s killed everything and nothing\u2019s taken since. It\u2019s the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Encalade is no young, green reed to these waters. He owns two oyster boats, the Lady Pamela<\/em>, and Miss Tallis<\/em>, which are anchored in Plaquemines Parish, about 20 kilometers northeast of the sunbaked highway in Delacroix, and he has fished oyster for 40 years.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s been out of oyster fishing this season and parts of previous, unable to break even on the lean pickings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI used to haul up 70 to 80 sacks a day on my own,\u201d he said. But this year, whose season began in October, he\u2019s hauled up a mere 11. \u201cI can\u2019t do it anymore \u2013 it\u2019s too depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A sack, according to oystermen, weighs anywhere from 80 to 130 pounds, though local fisheries say that, at best, sacks are a sort of estimate to indicate 100 pounds, and the estimates can be imprecise.<\/p>\n

Encalade, a two-meter-tall father of eight children ranging in age from 19 to 36, now takes odd jobs to pay the bills. He fixes other peoples\u2019 boats, which sit as fallow as his. A high point in his itinerant employment was a turn on Treme<\/a><\/em>, the hit HBO series on post-Katrina New Orleans, as an extra. \u201dBut I ain\u2019t much cut out for acting \u2013 I kinda tell it too straight,\u201d he said, smiling and scratching a pustule<\/a> on his face he said he had since he helped work oil rescue \u2013 like every other area fisherman \u2013 after the blowout.<\/p>\n

\"stanly<\/p>\n

A docked oyster boat Encalade is fixing for another owner in hopes of better seasons to come. (Photo: Charles Digges\/Bellona)<\/p>\n

\u201cBP sure threw us a curve ball, killed everything in the ocean, and now even the people\u2019s dying<\/a>. We get\u2019s to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

BP speaks in its own defense <\/strong><\/p>\n

The oil giant responsible for the Deepwater Horizon blowout on April 20, 2010 \u2013 which amounted to 4.9 million barrel, 87 day oil geyser and the 1.85 million gallon\u2019s worth toxic Corexit oil dispersant rained upon it \u2013 has recently cited Louisiana State scientific data and declared its innocence in the destruction of the Gulf\u2019s second biggest cash crop, whose harvests can be wiped out by fresh water as easily as they can by crude and the oil dispersant Corexit. Oysters need salt water to survive.<\/p>\n

An April 12 statement<\/a> from BP, issued in response to an Associated Press article<\/a>, and pointed its finger squarely at \u201cLouisiana\u2019s diversion in 2010 of fresh water from the Mississippi River into oyster habitat,\u201d as well as flooding in in 2011. The diversion was ordered as a last ditch effort to clear oil and dispersant out of Louisiana\u2019s ever-dwindling wetlands and marshes \u2013 though scientists say it was ill advised.<\/p>\n

The evidence, furnished to BP by the state, the statement asserted, \u201cdebunked\u201d the idea \u201cthat oyster populations in Louisiana were adversely affected by oil or dispersants from the Deepwater Horizon accident [\u2026]\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the lion\u2019s share of seafood safety testing is done at sea by nonprofits like the Louisiana Environmental Action Network<\/a> (LEAN) in affiliation with the University of Texas and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How bad is the downturn? <\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear from Bellona\u2019s interviews with scientists, fishermen, seafood distributors, and Gulf state Marine resource officials that BP\u2019s stoic rebuttal that the abysmal oyster harvest is not related to its disaster must be taken with the grains of salt the company is insisting were washed out of the oyster beds.<\/p>\n

By this year, the oyster harvest Gulf-wide is hovering around one quarter to one third of what it was prior to the BP spill, Chris Nelson, owner of Bon Secour Fisheries, Inc \u2013 which buys oysters from all five Gulf states \u2013 told Bellona in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s just nothing out there,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had barren spells before, especially in the 80s and 90s but they\u2019re always cyclical \u2013 this is like there\u2019s something chronic out there in the water that\u2019s just preventing things in areas that were once abundant from taking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"oystershells\"<\/p>\n

Oyster shells with which the state government and private fishermen are hoping to create new oyster beds, or \u2018spats\u2019 to improve future harvests. (Photo: Charles Digges\/Bellona)<\/p>\n

He said that fresh water inundations tend only to impact oyster harvests for a season, sometimes less, and that fresh water alone couldn\u2019t account for the ongoing downward spiral \u201cwhich is probably the longest we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

What the dreadful harvests mean in numbers are that Louisiana\u2019s public reefs produced about 3 million to 7 million pounds of oyster meat a year prior to BP\u2019s catastrophe, according to figures reported by AP.<\/p>\n

Nelson said production in 2010 dropped by some 2 percent, but by the 2011 and 2012 seasons, \u201cit was clear things were really going off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oyster production in 2012 saw a free-fall to 563,100 pounds (255,417 kilograms). Then in 2013, the figures climbed to 954,950, Nelson said that was a decent bounce, but still was only a third of pre-2010 production rates.<\/p>\n

Where the plunging harvest is more visible is in the dollars and cents, said Nelson. Prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, prices were holding steady at about $25 a sack. After the fabled nightmare storm hit, followed shortly by the smaller Hurricanes Gustav and Ike in 2008, sack prices rose to about $30.<\/p>\n

After the spill, however, the short supply and variability in sack size and quality, Nelson said he is having to persuade his customers to pay from $45 t0 $60 per sack.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a rough sell and a huge increase, but we just don\u2019t have the harvest volume to go any lower,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The rope metallic droop of an empty oyster net on a dry docker fishing boat in Hopedale, Louisiana. (Photo: Charles Digges\/Bellona)<\/p>\n

Gulf academics tread carefully<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the local academic community, the oil vs. water debate is one in which scientists can be heard taking out scales to very carefully weigh their words.<\/p>\n

In brief, results that would contradict the findings of BP \u2013 which still holds the status of a monarchy in the local imagination, comprised of both of happy courtesans and vassals as well as rebellious rabble at the gate \u2013 stands to lose a shirt full more of money in the currently stalled $7.8 billion damage suit, whose case papers are yellowing in a New Orleans Federal Courtroom.<\/p>\n

Most people on the Gulf Coast with an degrees behind their name are not anxious to find themselves on the wrong end of a potential legal meat-grinder.<\/p>\n

Most fertile oyster beds nearly destroyed<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Louisiana corner of the Gulf of Mexico has in the past accounted for about half of the Gulf\u2019s oyster harvest and a third of overall US production because of the usually rich larvae-bearing currents, Dr. Thomas Soniat, an oyster biologist with the University of New Orleans, told Bellona.<\/p>\n

Oyster larvae, whose lifecycle is about two weeks, are swept by currents that round the southern tip of the Gulf\u2019s Chandeleur Islands and nestle along Louisiana\u2019s east coast substrates, or oyster beds, within its rich wetlands.<\/p>\n

Within the first days of the spill, the Chandeleur Islands, some 15 kilometers north of BP\u2019s runaway Macondo well, were some of the most oil and dispersant soaked areas in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

Whether any oyster larvae could have been contaminated in this stew of oil and dispersant as they rode the currents through Chandeleur Sound before settling in beds in eastern Louisiana is something Dr Soniat told Bellona still remains unknown.<\/p>\n

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LSU\u2019s Dr. Eugene Turner says the BP oil spill reduced the total area of Louisiana\u2019s wetlands by three times between 2010 and 2013. (Photo: Matthew Preusch\/Gulf Restoration Network)<\/p>\n

Dr Eugene Turner<\/a>, a wetlands specialist at Louisiana State University\u2019s School of the Coast and Environment, said substrates usually consist of oyster shell beds.<\/p>\n

But encroachment upon Louisiana\u2019s wetlands \u2013 which reduced in area by three times over the first three years after the spill, according to his research \u2013 have necessitated building limestone, brick and even cement substrates for the larvae to take root, or \u201cset\u201d as fishermen call it. Some set, some don\u2019t, and the why is a source of fierce debate.<\/p>\n

Birds pointed to hydrocarbons in oyster territory<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Dr Tuner has often been cast in local media reports as a proponent of the BP fresh-water-only theory<\/a>, his research has been far more nuanced, taking into account all variables, and he told Bellona outright that: \u201cNo one here is saying there was zero impact from the oil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because the wetlands and barrier islands like the Chandeleurs were critical stopovers for migratory birds, Dr Turner told Bellona that studies LSU conducted on migratory loons, who feed near oyster beds, \u201cshowed signatures\u201d of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons \u2013 or PAHs, signs of oil \u2013 in oyster habitats. Dr Turner concluded that these PAH signatures were most likely due to the loons\u2019 food sources.<\/p>\n

This, said DR. Turner, plus an uncharacteristic lack of insect life in wetlands and oyster habitats noticed two years after the spill, led to deeper investigations of what lay beneath the wetlands and the oyster beds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evaporation of some very volatile stuff, PAHs that had slipped in under the oil booms, was noticed,\u201d he said. \u201cThe oyster harvests occur quite deep, and it\u2019s very volatile down there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The research also revealed in the areas studies that PAH levels were several times what Dr Turner said were normal background levels, and that \u201cit will take decades or more to get back to those levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The normal background PAH levels are set by the usual organic interaction occurring from crude releases making it to short that are routinely released by any of the 40,000 oil platforms, operating or not, in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

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Oil booms didn\u2019t prevent oil and Corexit from oozing into wetlands and oyster habitat, say fishermen. (Photo: Matthew Preusch\/Gulf Restoration Network)<\/p>\n

Yet, Dr Turner also said LSU studies showed that organisms similar to oysters were grown in high PAH level habitats where able to thrive as if the PAHs weren\u2019t there at all, presenting something of a conundrum, but one that he said needs further study.<\/p>\n

The fresh water theory also holds some water<\/strong><\/p>\n

There also is evidence to suggest that the fresh water inundations are not off-base. The 2010 Mississippi River diversion referred to in the BP statement was, said Dr Turner \u201ca move that those who knew better would not have undertaken,\u201d because of the ravages the fresh water visited on Louisiana\u2019s oyster harvesting areas.<\/p>\n

Later, in 2012, the Bonnet Carre Spillway was built in New Orleans to alleviate the 2011 flooding referenced by the April 12 BP statement.<\/p>\n

Melissa Scallan of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources told Bellona the spillway decimated her state\u2019s oyster haul for 2012, reducing to a mere 65 sacks against the previous year\u2019s 43,772. When measured against Mississippi\u2019s take of 385,949 sacks in the 2009 season, though, Mississippi\u2019s 2011 take was a pittance.<\/p>\n

Scallan was thus on the fence when considering point blank whether the BP spill or the inundations did more damage to Mississippi\u2019s harvest.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the oil played a big role, but the water is important to,\u201d she said a little hesitantly. \u201cI guess we will not know for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blocked state environmental information?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In conversation with Bellona, Nelson was surprised by the LSU research cited by Dr Turner. Very little of it has been made public.<\/p>\n

Nelson also noted that the oyster blight is not general throughout the Gulf. Some areas that have produced in the past are still producing, where other areas that could have been counted on for consistently abundant harvests are \u201cdead zones.\u201d<\/p>\n

These dead zones, he said, correspond to areas that were hit by BP oil and dispersant, and said that an ongoing PAH presence in oyster habitats, especially in the Gulf\u2019s previously most productive area, could account for the rock bottom harvest rates for the last four years.<\/p>\n

But Nelson said that \u201cthose who would know aren\u2019t telling me whether it\u2019s fresh water inundation, or BP oil and dispersant or even something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ones who presumably know, said Nelson, are officials at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries<\/a>, which has been conducting a so-called Nation Resource Disaster Assessment (NRDA) on the public reef oyster fishing areas since days after the Deepwater Horizon blew, and thus has wide discretion over what it reveals and keeps close to the vest.<\/p>\n

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Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officials are unable to comment on the condition of many oyster habitats that fall under a National Resources Disaster Assessment (NRDA) ,restricting public knowledge about the environment. (Photo: Jonathan Henderson\/Gulf Restoration Network)Nelson, fishermen and local activist groups complain that the long running study should have revealed at least some tangible results by now, and say the agency is purposely stymieing the flow of information on the local environment.<\/p>\n

Nelson routinely tries to get small clues out of them and says \u201cit\u2019s like there\u2019s some sort of gag order in place over there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve found something horrible that will kill oysters in the Gulf forever or if it\u2019s a problem that will resolve relatively soon,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the point is we don\u2019t know and they won\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n

After repeated calls and emails from Bellona over a three-day period, Wildlife and Fisheries responded with an emailed\u00a0 statement reading that, \u201cImpacts to Louisiana\u2019s natural resources as a result of the Deepwater Horizon<\/em> Oil Spill continue to be investigated as part of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment Process set forth under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. We do not yet know the full extent of the damages to the resources (including the impacts to oysters.)\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement added that the agency has \u201cdocumented significant reductions in reproductive success of oysters on our public seed grounds,\u201d and acknowledged that, \u201c[w]hile investigations into the direct cause of low spat [oyster bed] production continues through the Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) process, the low oyster spat [production] coincides with the timing and location of the Deepwater Horizon<\/em> disaster.\u201dThe agency implied that it wasn\u2019t under any instructions not to release information, writing that the NRDA trustees \u201ccontinue to actively investigate impacts to oysters as a result of the spill and they have and will continue to release study plans developed over the course of the spill.\u201d The statement provided a link to the various study plans<\/a> Wildlife and Fisheries has under consideration for each of the impacts it is studying under the NRDA. Nelson nevertheless ironically noted that prior to what seems to be one of\u00a0\u00a0 Wildlife and Fisheries first pubic statements, the agency\u2019s personnel had been deflecting reporters\u2019 inquiries to him, \u201cas if I know something they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fishermen see oil not water <\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifty-eight-year-old oyster and shrimp fisherman George Barisch, who is also president of the United Commercial Fishermans\u2019 Association, gave some credence to the fresh water notion \u2013 though not much. He\u2019s been oyster fishing since he was nine-years-old, on a three generation leased 35-acre plot, and he\u2019s no stranger to fresh water inundations.<\/p>\n

\u201cMother nature\u2019s a bitch \u2013 she\u2019ll give, take away, and give again,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s always the fresh water cycle, but the beds always come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, for his beds, this hasn\u2019t happened since 2010.<\/p>\n

He told Bellona that his legacy oyster bed in the Louisiana Marsh\u2019s Caraco Bay was destroyed by oil and Corexit, despite promises by BP not to dump it\u2019s toxic dispersant in Chandeleur Sound between the Chandeleur Islands and Louisiana\u2019s east coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother lie,\u201d he said of the Corexit dumps.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my case, BP took away and mother nature can\u2019t pay their debt \u2013 what killed my oysters was oil and Corexit, not fresh water.\u201d<\/p>\n

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George Barisch testing the safety of oysters near Shell Beach in Yscloskey, Louisiana. (Film still courtesy of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network)<\/p>\n

Since then, he\u2019s down a whopping 93 percent in his oyster take since before the spill. Where routinely he would book some 4,000 to 6,000 sacks per season with Nelson\u2019s Bon Secour prior to 2010, he said he hasn\u2019t raised even 600 marketable sacks in the four years since the spill. The rest of his beds are contaminated by oil and dispersant.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat ever else is left in my beds is covered with such unspeakable nastiness that I can\u2019t possibly bring sell it on the market,\u201d he said. \u201cGod forbid somebody gets sick and dies and it gets traced to my product.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sacks are typically labeled in detail, with dates of the catch, or \u201cland,\u201d the vessel and the captain.<\/p>\n

But this is far from his worries: \u201cMy main issue is that none of my leased plots have any babies coming up \u2013 I;m broke.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nightmare will not go away<\/strong><\/p>\n

Encalade is involved in ongoing litigation with BP, but like most, is not hopeful for any settlement. He passed on earlier offers of $30,000, $40,000 and then $50,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are nothing but an insult,\u201d he said. \u201cFor a life\u2019s work that I can\u2019t do no more? For work I\u2019ve been doing since before I could read? It\u2019s a g*ddamned insult.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and his 27-year-old son are currently represented in the $7.8 billion class action damage suit in New Orleans he said, but that\u2019s not paying any bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes at night, I fall asleep feeling like I\u2019m in the cabin of my boat,\u201d he confides. \u201cThe radio will squawk and I\u2019ll talk back, tell \u2018em I\u2019m doing good with 60 or 70 sacks for my trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those dreams that goes one, he says, staring off into the heat shimmer rising from the asphalt and gravel and making the far off willows look like they\u2019re submerged in water.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a dream I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll wake up from and find out the whole nightmare of everything that\u2019s happened since the BP spill is just all that \u2013\u00a0a nightmare.\u201d his<\/p>\n

He lifts his cap from his head and wipes away sweat while staring at his work boots, contemplating that fantasy. \u201cThen I wake up, and find out it\u2019s no nightmare,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s right here.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the fourth in a series of article Bellona is producing on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon spill. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Charles Digges<\/h1>\n

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