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News Daily June 24, 2008

Esther Chandran presents the Star Daily News update. Highlights include journalists staging a boycott at the Parliament, the passing away of Tan Sri Eric Chia, the consideration to streamline manufacturing standards of seafood products and the resignation of senior aide and secretary of Selangor PKR, Mohamad Yahya Mat Shari.

Duration : 0:2:58

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Fake Seafood in Yau Ma Tei

The focus for the school’s 50th anniversary is in fact on the transformation of Yau Ma Tei, the vast district which our school calls home and which has experienced as much change as our small school has over the past 50 years, if not more. To highlight the past and present conditions facing the district, I developed a project for the students in form two, a cross-curricular project, for which they selected and researched an issue currently affecting Yau Ma Tei; in groups of four, they interviewed people, read literature, and filmed a documentary for this multi-disciplinary assignment. The final report, with the accompanying, ancillary videos are available for free and public viewing.

This group reported on fake seafood for sale in Yau Ma Tei.

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BP Oil Spill: Is The Seafood Really Safe? NRDC’S Gina Solomon: Where’s the Testing?

Doctors, researchers, scientists and citizens, like Dr. Solomon, are waging a silent battle against government agencies that are failing to fulfill their own organizational directives. As Project Gulf Impact gathers more firsthand accounts of how the Gulf of Mexico is being dangerously neglected, the situation in the Gulf grows worse. With new reports of oil washing onto shore and into the bayou, the numbers of affected life are increasing, not dropping. Several of our interviews have left us asking, why is organized, decisive action not being taken?

More information can be found in Dr. Solomon’s recent blog entries, linked below:

“Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You?”

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/gulf_shrimp_testing_still_not.html

And “Six Months, Five Shrimp, and One Nasty Mess: Health & Seafood Safety Concerns from BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today”

Here: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gsolomon/six_months_five_shrimp_and_one.html

Where she writes, “…the Federal government reopened 2,927 square miles of the Gulf to fishing and shrimping, just South of the Mississippi Delta. The Feds confirmed that the area was safe for shrimping by performing a “sniff test” for oil odors on five shrimp samples. They confirmed the sniff test with three composite samples of shrimp sent for chemical testing from an approximately 1,000 square mile area. No information was provided to the public on the size or location of the shrimping grounds or why so few chemical analyses were performed. This does not seem sufficient to assess the safety of the seafood coming out of the Gulf right now.”

Transcript of introduction:

“The seafood testing so far has been so frustrating because it has been so, really unscientific. It’s not that hard to do a basic seafood testing program. You go out and you figure out how many samples you need in order to have adequate statistical power to pick up a problem if it’s really out there, and then you go out and you do it. But what’s happening right now is this sort of sporadic, willy-nilly re-openings by different agencies, by state and federal government agencies, sometimes on the basis of really almost no testing results.”

Project Gulf Impact
www.projectgulfimpact.org

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Fishermen Visit Obama’s Gulf Vacation With Concerns About Seafood Safety w/ Kindra Arnesen Part Two

Part Two

“On Sunday, August 15th, fishing families from across the Gulf Cost will gather in Panama City Beach, Florida, with a message for President Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is still infused with oil and dispersants from the BP disaster, threatening marine life, livelihoods, and the health of the American people.”

“Fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated seafood to market and make people sick.” – Kathy Birren

“While President Obama and state officials claim that the Gulf is ‘open for business,’ these fishermen say the spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they’re concerned that seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for eating.”

“The tissue testing of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent.” – Tracy Kuhns, Louisiana Bayoukeeper

“I think it is crucial for the public to be made aware of the concerns of the commercial fishermen. And if a commercial fisherman who makes his living off of those products doesn’t want to deliver them to the public, the public needs to know why.” – Chris Bryant, Commercial Fisherman

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Fishermen Visit Obama’s Gulf Vacation With Concerns About Seafood Safety w/ Kindra Arnesen Part One

Part One

“On Sunday, August 15th, fishing families from across the Gulf Cost will gather in Panama City Beach, Florida, with a message for President Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is still infused with oil and dispersants from the BP disaster, threatening marine life, livelihoods, and the health of the American people.”

“Fishermen do not want to lose our credibility or deliver contaminated seafood to market and make people sick.” – Kathy Birren

“While President Obama and state officials claim that the Gulf is ‘open for business,’ these fishermen say the spraying of dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico is ongoing and they’re concerned that seafood pulled from impacted waters is unsafe for eating.”

“The tissue testing of this seafood is inadequate and testing for the toxic dispersants is non-existent.” – Tracy Kuhns, Louisiana Bayoukeeper

“I think it is crucial for the public to be made aware of the concerns of the commercial fishermen. And if a commercial fisherman who makes his living off of those products doesn’t want to deliver them to the public, the public needs to know why.” – Chris Bryant, Commercial Fisherman

Filmed by Gavin Garrison and Heather Rally

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EAT AND ENJOY: EPA study shows Gulf seafood is safe

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Tuna Fisheries in Indonesia Go Eco-Friendly

Tuna industries in Indonesia are turning to friendly fishing. The world tuna industry has been widely blamed for killing endangered sea life, such as turtles, sharks and sea birds.

The sea-life killing culprits are the longline and purse seine nets they use. The nets drag and dredge the sea bed, taking everything along with the prized tuna, a staple in most menus. However, the Nutrindo fishery in Bitung, North Sulawesi in Indonesia is using the hand line rather than longline in their 25 boats for two weeks to one month. Fishery owner Hartono Tjandrason says the reason he chose the handline was to avoid catching in sealife except for tuna. [Hartono Tjandrason, Fishery Owner]: “In this fishing industry, we need development sustainability, resources sustainability. So, without resources we would not have development. We have to maintain this circle.” His fishery exports a ton of yellow fin tuna to Japan daily and some 100 tons to United States a month. Bas Zaunbrecher, of ANOVA, a Netherlands-based tuna fishery that operates in Bali’s waters says most of his customers in Japan and the U.S. demand environmentally friendly seafood products. [Bas Zaunbrecher, ANOVA]: “More and more of our customers they require fish from sustainable sources. So it is actually a must for the future and also if things are not being controlled properly in the future, we will not have any resources anymore to buy our product from.” His company’s long line of fleets have replaced traditional J-shaped hooks, which fish and turtles tend to swallow, with various sizes of circular hooks. Endangered sea turtles accidentally caught by fishermen off Indonesia’s sea coasts usually die, but innovative hooks that are too big to swallow are increasingly saving the reptiles’ lives.

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Top chefs talk tainted seafood

Celebrity and world renowned chefs speak about the oil disaster’s impact on Gulf seafood and the coast’s way of life.

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Save money on your home energy and crawfish

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Amazing Seafood Pasta in 15 minutes

James tossin’ a little something together on the news. Watch as he cooks a seafood pasta containing Shrimp, Mussels, and Scallops. Enjoy, and don’t forget to Comment, Rate, and Subscribe to see more video’s of James cooking.

Ingredients:

Salt
4 Cloves of Garlic
1 Shallot or ¼ of Red Onion
1 ½ – 2 cups of white wine (Anything you have will work)
1 pint of grape tomatoes (Used for tomato sauce, your favorite jar of sauce will work also)
1 box of Linguine
¼ Cup of Olive Oil
1 Tbsp of Butter
Shredded Parmesan Cheese
½ lb of Scallops
¾ lb of shrimp
¾ lb of mussels

Directions:

For Tomato Sauce
Add the grape tomatoes to a oven safe baking dish and coat with olive oil. Add 1 clove of garlic minced and a generous amount of salt. Allow to roast in the oven for 15 minutes at 400°.

For Seafood Pasta
In a non-stick pan add the olive oil and butter and allow to melt. After the butter is melted add the shallot and garlic and sauté on medium high heat and cook until tender. After the vegetables become tender add the whit wine and allow to cook until the liquid has reduced by half. After the reduction has taken place add homemade tomato mixture or a jar of your favorite tomato sauce to the pan. Next add the shrimp, 1 minute later add the mussels and scallops. Cover the pan and allow to simmer at medium heat for 5 minutes or until all of the mussels have opened. Add your cooked linguine to the pan and serve family style. Enjoy!

Duration : 0:3:40

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