For Ung Bun, a 39-year-old fisherman from Cambodia's southern Kep province, the days when he would come home with plentiful catches of flower crabs appear to be long gone. Ung Bun dropped the crab - a male that was too small - back into the sea. He later took three gravid crabs - females laden with eggs - out of a bucket and released them back into the sea.
bottom, or trapped underneath the sand, last week government officials claimed three quarters of the spilled oil had been collected or, poof, disappeared. but scientists discovered original specs of oil inside crab larvae that could signal trouble for the entirety of the food chain. our next guest says the battle for the gulf is just beginning. felipe could you cousteau took video of himself diving in this and has been a guest in this parole program before. good to see you. we were afraid of this. we didn t know where we were find it and i guess it s happened. it has. i think some of the perhaps overall optimistic reports the last few days or week, the worst is behind us, are just that, overly optimistic. there s good news.
it s hard to overestimate what is serious concern this is. well, that s just it. i think that one of the scariest parts about this experience is the catastrophe in the gulf. it s unprecedented. this level, this degree of oil spill has never happened, never happened this deep and we don t know the long term impacts of what s going to happen. the latest reports that you mentioned about the oil in the crab larvae is a perfect example of how this oil its insidious. i had it on my hands. i ve been diving in the gulf. even when we didn t see it at the surface, i could see it in front of my face. it s toxic to fish eggs and larvae. it doesn t take much to continue
but some say that doesn t give a food picture. do you think it s incorpor e incorporating into the food chain. it s get into things like crab larvae. that s important food for other fish. but there s also a stage before we get crab adults. we contacted an epa official before that. he disputes that. experts say we may not know for several years. ooh i know you spoke to the ceo of the company that makes the dispersants. what did he have to say? he says, you know, this is really a safe project. he has an agenda. he said this is less tox ix than dish soap and he s saying it has