Port Fourchon oil spill largely cleaned up; oyster harvesting closed in the area<\/a><\/p>\nPhotos and videos taken since the spill show masses of thick, tar-like crude floating in the Gulf and sticking to oysters and equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This week, the Louisiana Department of Health announced oyster beds would be closed along part of the coast, including parts of Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, due to the spill.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, I’m out of business until further notice, and god knows when that’s going to be,\u201d said Daisy, whose oyster leases are in the middle of the affected area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other fishermen worry their catches could be affected next.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBP wasn’t even this bad. We didn’t see this much oil coming into our shores and on our banks,\u201d commercial shrimper Kerry Trosclair said at Wednesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n
The meeting was organized by a group of law firms in the area who call themselves the “Louisiana Coastal Claims Coalition.” They handed out contracts for legal representation regarding the spill to attendees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it’s going to affect not only fishermen today, but it’s going to affect the consumer on the back end. So restaurants are going to be affected. Tourism gets affected,\u201d said David Ardoin, an attorney with AMO trial lawyers.<\/p>\n
He advised fishermen affected by the spill to keep documentation of any losses.<\/p>\n
Some do not want to take the chance. White shrimp season starts Tuesday, but Trosclair said he is not sure he wants to send his boats out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I go out there and catch shrimp, and they come back in and they’re contaminated, or getting that crude oil on my boat\u2026 that\u2019s a lot of money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 100 oyster fishermen, shrimpers, and crabbers gathered in Dulac on Wednesday to hear from lawyers.\u00a0 DULAC, La.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-532330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}