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  • Local fishermen watching Katrina anniversary footage in Serigne's cafe on August 25th, 2010. The local fishermen were working for BP, helping clean up the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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  • Morgan Serigne, 6, with his brother Logan Serigne, 4, playing on empty crab pots near their home in St Bernard, LA on July 20, 2010. The crab pots were pulled onto land after the waters were closed to crab fishing after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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  • Oil platforms line the horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on July 20, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  Last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Local fishermen take a break from collecting oil contaminated boom on August 24th.
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  • Jason Melerine with his son Jason Malerine Jr., 2, at their home in Violet, LA on November 8, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine counts his catch of blue crab waiting to be sorted on Delacroix Island in St Bernard Parish, LA on May 25th, 2010. Local fisherman from St Bernard Parish were desperately fishing the surrounding bayou to earn as much income as possible before authorities shut down the crab fishing while the BP oil spill inched closer.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, at his home after gator hunting in Delacroix Island, LA on August 30, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Gator hunting with Paul Serigne on the bayou outside Delacroix Island, LA on August 27th, 2010.
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  • The Delacroix Staging Area for BP contractors working the oil spill on Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • Morgan Serigne, 6, and his brother Logan Serigne, 4, play outside their home in Poydras, LA on July  12th, 2010.
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  • Hurricane Katrina anniversary memorial ceremony, laying of the wreath on Shell Beach, LA August 29, 2010.
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  • Eric Melerine and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island from Delacroix Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Eric Melerine, Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island from Delacroix Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine during the morning safety meeting local fishermen attended before heading out to clean up contaminated boom, on Delacroix Island, LA August 25th, 2010.
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  • Oil spill sandbags along the Gulf of Mexico on July 7th, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales crab fishing in the bayou near Delacroix, LA on November 12, 2010.
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  • Thomas gator, 72, hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Wildlife and Fisheries checking for oiled birds on Popcorn beach in Venice, LA, on July 10th, 2010.
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  • Deck hand Derrick Bennett reaches for a crab pot on Lake Amedee in St Bernard Parish, LA on May 26th, 2010. Local fisherman from St Bernard Parish were desperately fishing the surrounding bayou to earn as much income as possible before authorities shut down the crab fishing while the BP oil spill inched closer.
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  • Deckhands Joshua Alfonso, left, and Derrick Bennett, right, sort blue crab as they run pots from Yscloskey in St Bernard Parish, LA on May 26th, 2010. Local fisherman from St Bernard Parish were desperately fishing the surrounding bayou to earn as much income as possible before authorities shut down the crab fishing while the BP oil spill inched closer.
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  • Exhausted, Van Huynh spends time with her children Quentin Vo, 2, left, and Renee Vo, 5, right, at their home in Marrero, LA on May 23, 2010. Van Huynh found a job in a nail salon working long hours to earn money for the family after her husband Minh Vo lost his income after shrimp season was closed because of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. By the time the $5,000 check from BP arrived, it was spent within days paying bills. Forced from his shrimp boat, Minh Vo began cooking, cleaning and looking after the children at home.
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  • Sal Gagliano, center, Anthony Major, right, and Kimmie Serigne, far right, grade and pack blue crab on Delacroix Island, LA on May 22nd, 2010. Local fishermen were racing against time to catch crab and earn an income before the fishing industry completely shut down with oil contaminating the waters after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently blue crab fishing is the only industry open after shrimp and oyster fishing were closed a month earlier.
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  • Kimmie Serigne baits his crab pots as he runs 100 traps for the first time this season in Little Lake on Plaquemines Parish, LA on May 22nd, 2010. Local fishermen were racing against time to catch crab and earn an income before the fishing industry completely shut down with oil contaminating the waters after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently blue crab fishing is the only industry open after shrimp and oyster fishing were closed a month earlier.
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  • After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, commercial shrimp captain Loc Nguyen, 56, cleans and makes repairs on his boat, the Captain Paul, while he waits for the authorities to reopen the shrimp fishing industry in Chalmette, LA on May 21, 2010. The Vietnamese fishing community have struggled to survive after the shrimping industry shut down three weeks earlier.
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  • BP contractors pack up and leave Delacroix Island, LA on September 01, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting in the bayou off Delacroix Island, LA on August 31, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting in the bayou off Delacroix Island, LA on August 31, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Gator hunting with Paul Serigne on the bayou outside Delacroix Island, LA on August 27th, 2010.
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  • Gator hunting with Paul Serigne on the bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 27th, 2010.
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  • Gator hunting with Paul Serigne on the bayou outside Delacroix Island, LA on August 27th, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010. Last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010. Last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010. Last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, getting ready to go gator hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  Last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Serigne family gather for a birthday party in St Bernard, LA on August 29, 2010.
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  • Kimmie Serigne gives his youngest son Joseph Serigne, 1, some shrimp during a family gathering at his home in St Bernard, LA on August 29, 2010.
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  • Empty lots remain five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the small fishing community of Delacroix Island, LA on September 02, 2010.
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  • Lionel Serigne sits with friends at Delacroix Island, LA on August 30, 2010.
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  • Howie Serigne showing Christian Guerra, 8, from St Bernard how to hook his reels in his camper at Delacroix Island, LA on September 01, 2010. Lazarus Gonzles talking with his cousin Howie Serigne visiting on the road.
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  • Local fishermen gather for a shrimp cook off on Delacroix Island, LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • Eric Melerine bringing in contaminated hard boom to Hopedale, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Allen Labat and his brother Mikey Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island from Delacroix Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island as a storm comes in to the Gulf of Mexico on August 30, 2010.
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  • Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island as a storm comes in to the Gulf of Mexico on August 30, 2010.
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  • On the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, fishermen have their boats loaded with boom to take out to help in the effort to clean up the BP oil spill on Delacroix Island, LA August 25th, 2010.
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  • Redfish fishing with Clinton Morales on Delacroix Island , LA August 25th, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island fishermen working for St Bernard Parish collect 209 bags of absorbent boom around Black Bay, LA on July 19, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island fishermen working for St Bernard Parish collect 209 bags of absorbent boom around Black Bay, LA on July 19, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island fishermen working for St Bernard Parish collect 209 bags of absorbent boom around Black Bay, LA on July 19, 2010.
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  • Wildlife and Fisheries checking for oiled birds on Popcorn beach in Venice, LA, on July 10th, 2010.
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  • Workers picked blue crab Thursday at the Pontchartrain Blue Crab processing facility in Slidell, LA on July 15, 2010. Gary Bauer, president of the company said his sales of blue crab and shrimp have dropped to 20% of their normal $8 million-a-year pace since the BP Oil Spill. Gary Bauer, President of Pontchartrain Blue Crab at his processing plant in Slidell, LA on July 15, 2010.
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  • Workers picked blue crab Thursday at the Pontchartrain Blue Crab processing facility in Slidell, LA on July 15, 2010. Gary Bauer, president of the company said his sales of blue crab and shrimp have dropped to 20% of their normal $8 million-a-year pace since the BP Oil Spill.
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  • Public Meeting with BP at the Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center Ballroom in Chalmette, Louisiana on May 24nd, 2010.
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  • Van Huynh bathes her son Quentin Vo, 2, at their home in Marrero, LA on May 23, 2010.  With her husband out of work as a commercial shrimp boat captain because of the BP oil spill, Van Huynh has had to find work for the family to financially survve. By the time the $5,000 check from BP arrived, it was spent within days paying bills. Now the family of six don't know how to survive. Forced from his shrimp boat, Minh Vo began cooking, cleaning and looking after the children at home.
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  • Thomas Gonzales watches the sun rise while crab fishing in Delacroix, LA on November 12, 2010.
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  • Eric Melerine and his brother Jason Melerine with his wife Nicole Melerine and children Hailey Melerine, 7, Gabrielle Melerine, green top, 4, Hannah Melerine, dress, 3, and Jason Melerine Jr., 2, at Eric's home in Violet, LA on July 18, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island fishermen working for St Bernard Parish collect 209 bags of absorbent boom around Black Bay, LA on July 19, 2010.
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  • Debris from Hurricane Katrina still litter the bayou five years after the storm near Delacroix Island , LA August 25th, 2010.
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  • Local fishermen attend St Bernard Catholic Church in St Bernard, LA on November 14, 2010.
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  • Foundations are all that remain five years after Hurricane Katrina on Delacroix Island, LA August 27th, 2010.
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  • Avery Serigne's first birthday party at Kimmie and Jami's home in St Bernard on August 29, 2010.
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  • Kimmie Serigne and his wife Jami Serigne with their children Morgan, 6, Joseph, 1, and Logan, 4, at their home in Poydras, LA on July  12th, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales crab fishing in Delacroix, LA on November 12, 2010.
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  • Morgan Serigne, 6, and his brother Joseph Serigne, 1, at their home in Poydras, LA on July 30, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island, LA on September 02, 2010.
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  • Boiling shrimp on Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine with his family at his home in Poydras, LA on August 31, 2010.
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  • Thomas gator, 72, hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Paul Serigne gator hunting on the bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 27th, 2010.
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  • Thomas gator, 72, hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales crab fishing in Delacroix, LA on November 12, 2010.
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  • Thomas gator, 72, hunting from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.  last week he finished crabbing because the price dropped to $1.25 for the 1's and it wasn't worth the bait and gas to continue. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Fishermen at the safety meeting before working picking up the remaining boom around Pelican and Bell Island from Delacroix Island, LA on September 02, 2010.
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  • Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island from Delacroix Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine crabbing with his deckhand Stephen Tircuit and boat owner Mike Kospelich, and his nephew Matt Palazzotto in Black Bay and Bretton Sounds, LA on November 9, 2010.
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  • Blue crab caught by fisherman Kimmie Serigne as he runs 100 traps for the first time this season in Little Lake on Plaquemines Parish, LA on May 22nd, 2010. Local fishermen were racing against time to catch crab and earn an income before the fishing industry completely shut down with oil contaminating the waters after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Currently blue crab fishing is the only industry open after shrimp and oyster fishing were closed a month earlier.
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  • Local fishermen bow their heads in prayer before leaving to pick up hard boom for BP on August 24th.
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  • Jason Serigne, Joshua Alfonso and Michael Anfonso on weather standby near California Bay as a tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico, LA on July 20, 2010.
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  • Wildlife and Fisheries checking for oiled birds on Popcorn beach in Venice, LA, on July 10th, 2010.
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  • Wet weather cancels BP workers as they wait out the storm on Delacroix Island , LA August 27th, 2010.
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  • Sandbags dumped by helicopters to stop the oil reaching land, lie submerged by water near Venice, LA August 2nd, 2010.
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  • Oil floating close to Bell Island, LA on July 20, 2010.
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  • Flying over the BP oil spill site from Houma, LA on July  13th, 2010.
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  • Eric Melerine, Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat pulling in hard boom around Pelican Island from Delacroix Island, LA August 30, 2010.
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  • Deck hand Michael Labat, left, and Lance Melerine, right, work on the boat as they head through Plaquemines Parish, LA to pick up more crab pots on May 25th, 2010. Local fisherman from St Bernard Parish were desperately fishing the surrounding bayou to earn as much income as possible before authorities shut down the crab fishing while the BP oil spill inched closer.
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  • Commercial fisherman Jason Melerine, with his wife's name tattoed on his arm, steers the boat through the bayou in Plaquemines Parish, LA on May 25th, 2010. Local fisherman from St Bernard Parish were desperately fishing the surrounding bayou to earn as much income as possible before authorities shut down the crab fishing while the BP oil spill inched closer.
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  • Kimmie Serigne surrounds blue crab with ice preparing them for grading and packing after arriving back on Delacroix Island, LA on May 22nd, 2010. Local fishermen were racing against time to catch crab and earn an income before the fishing industry completely shut down with oil contaminating the waters after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Blue crab fishing was the only industry open after shrimp and oyster fishing were closed a month earlier.
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  • Jami Serigne, left, and her husband Kimmie Serigne, center, clean shrimp while their son Morgan Serigne, 6, plays with his pet turtle as they prepare to have fried shrimp for dinner in their home on the outskirts of Chalmette, LA on May 21st, 2010. The shrimp was caught in the local bayou to be used for bait after the shrimping industry was shut down after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • Shrimpboat captain Minh Vo, left, with his deckhands Cao Dang and Phong Nguyen, right, carefully spend the $100 grocery check provided by Catholic Charities after waiting for over four hours for financial support in New Orleans East, LA on May 21, 2010. The Vietnamese fishing community have struggled to survive after the shrimping industry shut down three weeks earlier after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • BP contractors leave Delacroix Island, LA on September 01, 2010.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, gator hunting in the bayou off Delacroix Island, LA on August 31, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, at his home after gator hunting in Delacroix Island, LA on August 30, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Thomas Gonzales, 72, rests at his home after gator hunting in Delacroix Island, LA on August 30, 2010. Thomas is one of the only Delacroix fishermen not working for BP.
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  • Gator hunting with Paul Serigne on the bayou outside Delacroix Island, LA on August 27th, 2010.
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  • After a long day gator hunting, Thomas Gonzales dances in Chalmette, LA on August 27, 2010.
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  • Paul Serigne and Melvin gator hunting  on the bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 27th, 2010.
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  • Paul Serigne gator hunting at dawn from Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010.
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  • Lionel Serigne watches as BP contractors leave his land after he threatened them with eviction for not paying rent, at Delacroix Island, LA on September 01, 2010.
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