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Flooding could spell disaster for Mississippi seafood industry |
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As historic flooding along the Mississippi River continues moving south, the Corp of Engineers was forced to release fresh water through the Bonnet Carre Spillway near Norco, Louisiana Monday morning. All of that fresh water will eventually make it into the Gulf of Mexico. And mixing fresh water with salt water could spell disaster for the seafood industry.
Joe Jewell with the Department of Marine Resources said if more fresh water is released, and expectations are that it will, there could be a devastating effect on South Mississippi's seafood industry, especially the oyster industry on the west end of the coast. Read the complete story from WLOX.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
