Many shrimpers and fishers are using their boats to lay boom or otherwise help in the BP oil cleanup, but reopening commercial fishing grounds would mean they can get back to the work they love. Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune
Posted on 07/27/2010 2:10:51 PM PDT by Libloather
Commercial fishing east of Mississippi River could reopen this week
Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune
Updated: Tuesday, July 27, 2010, 10:43 AM
Many shrimpers and fishers are using their boats to lay boom or otherwise help in the BP oil cleanup, but reopening commercial fishing grounds would mean they can get back to the work they love. Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune
After extensive lab testing and negotiations between state fisheries managers and the federal government, commercial fishing in most areas east of the Mississippi River could resume by the end of this week, more than 100 days after the beginning of the massive Gulf oil spill.
The news comes more than a week after state officials reopened most of southeast Louisiana's waters to sport fishing, but left the commercial industry facing expansive precautionary closures because of past oil sightings that stretch from eastern Lake Pontchartrain around the mouth of the river and west to Morgan City.
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100 years sure goes by quick....
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