Fisherman Forced To Sign Waiver {edit}

BP lies...nothing is made whole,
and now the fishermen are being
forced to take responsibility~~

Fisherman Forced To Sign Waiver Making Them and NOT BP Liable For Contaminated BP Gulf Oil Spill Seafood

The Government has lied and said the oil has disappeared while military aircraft continues to spray dispersants.

In fact the federal government has decided to violate its own protocols and reopen BP Gulf Oil Spill wishing waters based on “visual observation” of no oil on the surface using inadequate and skewed test results of fishing samples to justify the reopening of the waters.

Commercial fisherman James “Catfish” Miller, took fishermen Danny Ross Jr. and Mark Stewart, along with scientist Dr. Ed Cake of Gulf Environmental Associates and others out and they found the fishing grounds to be contaminated with oil and dispersants.

Similarly water samples taken by a local news station in Alabama waters reopened for fishing where also found to be highly toxic.

Gulf fisherman are warning us the shrimp they are catching is covered in oil and were told to shut up about it by Government officials after complaining about it..

Now BP is leaving town and no longer paying out of work fisherman and the Government is trying to force fisherman to put contaminated seafood on the market.

Meanwhile as the government declares the waters are clean and the seafood is safe they are making the fisherman and not BP liable for any damages caused from any toxic seafood that makes consumers sick.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIF57Fphj2E&feature=player_embedded

complete story and links~~

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/17/fisherman-forced-to-sign-waiver-m...


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ps. here is a lawyer's take on BP's tactic~~

I'm a lawyer by training, so I think I'm seeing an endgame here.

BP's claims are offset by "income that was reasonably available."

Government opens fishing grounds. This is a gambit - win-win for BP, lose-lose for the fishermen.

Choice A - Commercial fishermen won't sign waivers and won't fish if the seafood is contaminated. BP will then offset their claims by the amount they "reasonably would have earned" had they signed the waivers and begun fishing. The fishermen lose money because they "could" have fished the newly opened waters.

Choice B - Commercial fishermen sign the waivers and fish and sell contaminated fish, destroying their careers because no one will eat Gulf seafood for years. BP's waiver gets BP off the hook for this loss of income.

This is a sick game that BP is playing and the Feds obviously have their back. Members of Congress from those Gulf districts must fight back. In order for them to do that, residents of Gulf districts need to make a stink about this.

The ONLY hope is that the waivers will be invalidated because the fisherman are not given a choice but to sign them.

~~Don Smith