You can add speckled trout to the list. Over the last several months, I've told you about all kinds of reports about serious problems to both the safety and available of Gulf seafood. Eyeless shrimp. Deformed crabs. Red snappers covered in lesions. Not to mention the days when the Gulf fleet returns to the dock with little catch at all, in waters that were once chock full of some of the tastiest seafood in the United States. All of this happening in the 28 months since British Petroleum unleashed a 5 million barrel torrent of crude oil off the coast of Louisiana, prompting little doubt of a connection between the Deepwater Horizon spill and the mounting woes for the beleaguered fishermen who populate the coastline. It kind of puts the Big Lie to that multi-million-dollar barrage of BP ads trying to sell U.S. tourists that everything is back to normal down here -- not to mention making a mockery of the fact that the Big Oil icon was also a "sustainability" partner of the just-concluded London Olympics. Closer to home, the local press uncovers a new ecological horror virtually every couple of days. Indeed, evidence of new problems is actually mounting because it typically takes a couple ...
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