This dedicated page is home to all news articles, forum reports, photos and videos related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the mouth of the Mississippi River.
I’ve been reading a lot of recent articles about how badly the BP oil spill has hurt the seafood business and I can certainly sympathize with those fisherman and their families . I would like to let p ... Read the full report
Just got the official word that the oil I found yesterday was not from BP. It is fairly new oil and they are hopefully gonna find out who it belongs to and where it came from. Good news was we had a g ... Read the full report
Okay guys. So the oil is gone right? I am lucky enough to have two camps. One in Grand Isle and one in the marsh 4 miles out of Cocodrie. Oil spill closed fishing in both places. That sucked. Fi ... Read the full report
After a year of no doom and gloom, I wonder what those loonies have to say now. Wonder if they are still living in a cave awaiting armageddon. Amazing how a special interest group can turn a weak mi ... Read the full report
Being a commercial fisherman out of Lafitte , I don't understand why the East side is still closed to crabbing . This winter Barataria Bay had more oil floating around in it while we were crabbing tha ... Read the full report
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Can we get a thread to focus on the mitigations efforts at hand which will help to alleviate some of the uncertainties of this oil spill in an organized fashion? Mike has done a great job in keeping ... Read the full report
Louisiana Office of Coastal Protection and Restoration (OCPR) officials opened the Davis Pond freshwater diversion in St. Charles Parish to full capacity (10,650 cubic feet per second) at 8:30 a.m. Mo ... Read the full report
BP finally gave up attempts to stem the flow of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with the so-called top kill, and the company’s spokesman said in a press conference there is no guarantee the next step ... Read the full report
Fishing closures on the east side of the Mississippi River were expanded dramatically this morning (July 5) by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, which shut down all fishing in Lake B ... Read the full report
The so-called “top kill” operation aimed at shutting off the flow of oil at the site of the wrecked Deepwater Horizon rig has been successful, the Los Angeles Times quoted U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Tha ... Read the full report
I have been sitting in the river with 10 loaded barges of limestone for the Barataria bay passes for 4 days now.
We brought these barges down from western Kentucky, arriving in N.O. on Monday and whe ... Read the full report
New Capping stack is closed. No oil escaping into the gulf from the well as of right now. Unclear at this point what will happen in a day or so. This is a well integrity test they are running. The pre ... Read the full report
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This thread has been locked because the sheer number of comments and associated photos was bogging down the system. However, you can continue the discussion on t ... Read the full report
New Capping stack is closed. No oil escaping into the gulf from the well as of right now. Unclear at this point what will happen in a day or so. This is a well integrity test they are running. The pre ... Read the full report
The so-called “top kill” operation aimed at shutting off the flow of oil at the site of the wrecked Deepwater Horizon rig has been successful, the Los Angeles Times quoted U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Tha ... Read the full report
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission voted on a split 4-3 vote to immediately rescind the provision allowing catch and release fishing in closed areas.
Reopening fishing throughout the state's coastal waters is the sole item on the agenda of a special meeting of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission that will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m.
Linda Faulk talks about why she disagrees with the catch-and-release policy proposed by the LDWF at the commission meeting on 7-8-10. ... Read the full report
Just want to take a quick poll of everyone who frequents this site.
How many of you out there see what is going on with this oil spill and say to yourself, 'This thing is worse than Katrina when i ... Read the full report
The lastest story on the oil spill page will make you wonder why we can't fish in much of the Louisiana coast, since there's no evidence of contaminated fish.
If you are a charter captain, or any other commercial fisherman that does NOT have legal councel going into this BP Blowout and pending devastation of our whole fishery here in SE Louisiana, you are w ... Read the full report
