Reply #140: I won't eat local seafood at this point. I live a few miles east of Biloxi, MS. [View All]

[Selatius]

Every damn day, the stench of oil is being brought ashore by the winds, so I know the oil isn't far away. There is no guarantee that the fish you catch near the shore wasn't the same fish that was swimming out there where the oil is. No guarantee. In fact, I went fishing the other day for fun's sake, but I and my friends threw back all the fish we caught. It sucks for the local seafood industry; it really does, but BP is the one that should be stepping up to keep the fishing industry afloat, not ordinary folks. Maybe it's time for the ones who caused this mess to subsidize the stricken fishermen instead of everybody else.

If I lived on the Texas shore or Miami or Tampa Bay, it'd be a different story, but as it stands, I live a few miles from the muck that's murdering the ocean.