SEISMIC OCEAN BLASTING TO BEGIN ON JUNE 3---15 miles off Barnegat Inlet

[GDubya07]

This will not be good at all

We will still overfish - Guarenteed - with even less fish to catch

GDubs-

[MrAC1980]

Greattttt... Another one of Gov's way of wasting money and f'in up more shit!

[Bob T.]

The more I look into this the worse it sounds.

Seismic airguns are used to find oil and gas deep underneath the ocean floor. Airguns are so loud that they disturb, injure or kill marine life, harm commercial fisheries, and disrupt coastal economies. These dynamite-like blasts—which are repeated every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for days and weeks at a time—are 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine. Seismic airgun testing currently being proposed in the Atlantic will injure 138,500 whales and dolphins and disturb millions more, according to government estimates.



Seismic airguns are towed behind ships and shoot loud blasts of compressed air through the water and miles into the seabed, which reflect back information about buried oil and gas deposits. These blasts harm marine mammals, sea turtles, fish and other wildlife.

Impacts include temporary and permanent hearing loss, abandonment of habitat, disruption of mating and feeding, and even beach strandings and death. For whales and dolphins, which rely on their hearing to find food, communicate, and reproduce, being able to hear is a life or death matter.

Airgun blasts kill fish eggs and larvae and scare away fish from important habitats. Following seismic surveys catch rates of cod and haddock declined by 40 to 80 percent for thousands of miles.

In addition to being devastating for marine life, seismic airguns are the first step toward dangerous and dirty offshore drilling with associated habitat destruction, oil spills and contribution to climate change and ocean acidification.

Oceana is working to halt the use of seismic airguns, and stop the expansion of dangerous offshore drilling.

[jmurr711]

We all gotta work together to stop this nonsense

[SaltLife1980]

This will not end good.. that amount of decibels is really going to impact the fishing... its going to push the fish away from the area.. This is a joke.. What a load of crap!

[howarda780]

I don't know if this is going to do any good. I just saw this on FB.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/230/0...ast-this-june/

[jmurr711]

Originally Posted by howarda780

I don't know if this is going to do any good. I just saw this on FB.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/230/0...ast-this-june/

i figure what we got to lose i signed it

[GDubya07]

Just signed - lets go peeps this will not go over well for fishing this year

Would you want to eat or stay with your wife screaming at you 24x7 x 30 days straight every 5 seconds?

I wouldn't either and would get up and leave or move - so please give it a shot cant hurt more than the sonic booooom that is coming

GDubs- For what it is worth -

[njboarder]

signed as well !!!!!

[Leif]

Ruin the Jetties, Cover everything with sand, blast the @%** out of the Marine life that's left then drill for oil and gas. PERFECT!

Sounds like a plan. Time to get out of NJ. Can't stand it anymore.

F'em all!

Leif