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NOAA Closes More of The Gulf to Shrimp Fishing

EINNEWS, December 1---NOAA has closed an additional 4,212 square miles of Gulf of Mexico waters to royal red shrimp fishing, just at the time the Gulf fishing industry has scheduled "America's Night Out For Gulf Seafood" to promote the Gulf's seafood.

It was only two weeks ago that NOAA reduced the closed area to the 1,000 square miles around the Deepwater Horizon wellhead and virtually declared most Gulf seafood safe to eat.

But then fishermen collected tar balls in their nets while trawling for royal red shrimp and other pulled up a catch of oily shrimp.

Gulf seafood samples tested to date have all been 100-fold or even 1000-fold below levels of concern, reports Bob Dickey, who heads up FDA's Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory on Dauphin Island.

An estimated 172 million gallons of oil was spilled into the Gulf between April 20 and July 15, according to the federal government's final calculation. That is a reduction of its first estimate of 205.8 million gallons.

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