Pogey Plant Closing- no more stank
 

It appears that the omega protein plant is going to be shutting down beginning immediately. Hate to hear of those people losing their jobs, but I guess good news fo anyone traveling the ship chanel.

http://www.kplctv.com/story/24194841/omega-protein

Tough news for those employees right before the holidays. Prayers to those families affected.

Sad to hear of that news.

Hate that for the employees. When I was at firm in LA, Omega was one of our audit clients.

It says they are "starting the closing process" immediately. Maybe they arent actually locking the doors and running everyone off just yet.

Obama

Thanks OBAMA

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Just curious, what does Pres. Obama has to do with it?

Yep...definitely obama fault

I spend a lot of time in a 16 ft aluminum boat in the ship channel south of the Pogey plant. Yes, the boats can bounce you around a bit with their wake, but I've always viewed the Pogey plant in a friendly way whether motoring by or being in the jetties and having the boats pass us. Those guys were doing real work and we're just fishing.

I hate to see Cameron lose any businesses, but the businesses that are separate from the petro-chemical industry are especially disappointing to see pack up and move out. Food and protein and fish oil are all important businesses. Too bad.

I wonder if the plant closing and subsequent reduction in the pogey harvest will have much impact on the local fishery? The Gulf Menhaden fishery is the 2nd largest fishery (by weight) in the US. That local fishery was probably harvesting several hundred million pounds of pogeys annually and probably also taking a significant bycatch of other species. In short, I expect that the local redfish and specks will have a lot more to eat in the next few years and should grow faster, be fatter, and have higher levels of fecundity. Redfish foraging pressure on blue crabs should also be reduced, so I think we can expect an uptick in crab availability.

On the other hand, if most of the biomass of Gulf Menhaden become too big for redfish and specks to eat, the impact could actually be negative.

You probably wont answer...
obama fault is just a bandwagon phrase everybody saying it.

Its the democratic and Republicans fault.

Republicans and democratic fault.


Jj

Lol :eek::D:cool:;):sly:

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Yep exactly what I was thinking, higher fecundity.

Prayers sent for the workers

cowboys about 3 am ... smell like a pogey plant...

Draconian sanctions...

4 boats to Abbéville the rest to moss point Mississippi only a financial plan to reduced redundancy. That's repeating the same thing over again without any gain for those who are dense.

Man that was hard to follow!!! you actually have to concentrate to read a thread on a fishing forum!!!!


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Thanks a lot les miles !!!!