[KDD]

It sank in an area called The Mississippi Canyons...Real "Deep Blue" area.
20 years ago I longlined 25,000 pounds of Yellow Fin tuna in 5 days from those waters. World record Bluefin and Marlin used to be plentiful in that area. Swordfish too, though these days I hear you catch nothing but pups there.

[chessplayer]

“We have the ability to keep it offshore,”

So it`ll “only” kill everything offshore. Wonderful. sarc/

[Brad from Tennessee]

[. . .though these days I hear you catch nothing but pups there.]

Any idea if it’s because of over-harvesting or have the fish moved to follow patterns of the bait fish or is it because they lost so much mangrove-type shoreline?

[SaveTheChief]

The key word in the headline is “fear”.

[RedhairRedhair]

Tuna fishing out of Venice and on down and out Southwest Pass is still awesome.

[upsdriver]

How many gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico? Compare that number to the amount of oil they claim is being spilled into the gulf.

[Three if by government]

I thought we talked in barrels gallons must sound better maybe they can figure out how many pints or wait table spoons.

[savedbygrace]

Crews fear oil rig will spill 336,000 gallons a day

After reading all the estimates and projections these past few days, I fear it will spill a gazillion gallons a day.