Ravi
Diamond Member
Oh, my bad...I remembered incorrectly.Actually...it does. 25% of what we Americans eat as seafood comes from the Gulf Coast.I'm in Colorado, sweetie, there's no fucking way I'm getting Fresh Shrimp from the Gulf of Meico or anywhere else, and, frankly, don't really care that much: If I wanna eat a fish, I go pull a trout out of a river of flowing snowmelt.
If I wanna fly somewhere to Eat Fresh Seafood, I can go to Bubba Gump's House in South Carolina, or to California, or to Chesapeake Bay....Gulf Coast has no Monopoly on Shrimp.
So if this 25% gets destroyed then prices will go up for what is left to share around.
Not to mention that it is looking possible that the oil will get sucked into the gulf stream...and then you can kiss your Chesapeake Bay shrimp adios.
What an interesting figure:
"25% of what we Americans eat as seafood comes from the Gulf Coast."
I wonder how that works since according to the World Resources Institute "eighty percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. is currently imported."
A football field disappears from the Louisiana coast every hourRICH FISHERY
The river delta marshes help make the Gulf of Mexico one of the richest fisheries on earth. Fish and shellfish dependent upon estuaries supply 75 percent of the total annual seafood harvest in the United States. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the combined fish and shellfish harvest from the five Gulf states equals nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. domestic landings and 40 percent of the recreational finfish landings. Recreational anglers contribute billions of dollars each year to the economy.
Regardless, you're still making an idiotic and incorrect point.