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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Deck hand Michael Labat grabs bait while running pots catching blue crabs in 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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  • The canal leading into the bayou 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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  • Crab fishermen head out at dawn down the canal leading into the bayou 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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  • Anthony Major, center, and Ryan Hobson, far right, grade and pack blue crab while Jason Melerine, left, and deck hand Michael Labat wash down the boat 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Deckhand Joshua Alfonso grades 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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  • Fisherman Kimmie Serigne pulls in a pot while out fishing blue crab at dawn 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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  • Captain Jason Melerine, left, assists deck hand Michael Labat, right, haul in crab pots from the boat 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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  • Captain Jason Melerine heads to the next line of crab pots 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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  • 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, 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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  • Local fishermen take a break from collecting oil contaminated boom on August 24th.
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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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  • Jason Melerine with his son Jason Malerine Jr., 2, at their home in Violet, LA on November 8, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • An old boat sits on an empty lot on Delacroix Island, LA on September 01, 2010. Hurricane Katrina devastated the small island community, then came the BP oil spill that took another toll on the fishing community.
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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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  • After a long day gator hunting, Thomas Gonzales dances in Chalmette, LA on August 27, 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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  • 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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  • Morgan Serigne, 6, and his brother Logan Serigne, 4, play outside their home in Poydras, LA on July  12th, 2010.
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  • Kimmie Serigne with his sons Logan Serigne, 4, and his brother Joseph Serigne, 1, at their home in Poydras, LA on July  6th, 2010.
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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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  • Dusk on Delacroix Island, LA on August 30, 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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  • The bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • David Hebert with his nephew Ryan Miller shrimping on the bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • Oil on the water Lake Campo and Black Bay on August 24th.
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  • Eric Melerine, Mikey Labat and his brother Allen Labat bringing in contaminated hard boom from Pelican Island to Hopedale, 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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  • Fishermen load up boom and fill up gas at the dock at Delacroix Island, LA before heading out into the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the BP Oil Spill clean up on September 02, 2010.
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  • Kimmie Severigne with Delacroix Island fishermen working for St Bernard Parish during the early morning safety briefing in Delacroix, LA on July 20, 2010.
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  • Local fishermen listen to the safety meeting as 2et weather cancels BP workers as they wait out the storm on Delacroix Island , LA August 27th, 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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  • Father John Arnone, Pastor of St Bernard Catholic Church, blesses the fishing boats during an annual ceremony in Delacroix Island on July 31, 2010.
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  • Redfish fishing with Clinton Morales on Delacroix Island , LA August 25th, 2010.
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  • Delacroix Island in Louisiana, August 25th, 2010.
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  • Hannah Melerine, 3, at home in Violet, LA on July 18, 2010. Her father Eric Malerine has been working for BP since the oil spill.
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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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  • Rodney Anglada, blue, Clinton Morales, 61, whits t-shirt, Eugene "Scoop" Anglada, 66, Neil Serigne and John Serigne (wllie's brother) watch tv as they announce the oil has stopped spilling into the Gulf of Mexico since April, on the Delacroix Island, LA on July 15, 2010.
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  • Fishermen working for St Bernard Parish replacing hard boom around Bell Island, LA on July 20, 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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  • 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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  • After shrimp season was closed because of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, shrimp boat captain Minh Vo plays with his son Quentin Vo, 2, at their home in Marrero, LA on May 23, 2010.  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 while his wife found a job in a nail salon two weeks earlier.
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  • After the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, commercial shrimp captain Loc Nguyen, 56, cleans 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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  • Jason Melerine shrimping at dusk with Katie Landry and Stephen Tircuit on Delacroix Island, LA on November 8, 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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  • David Hebert with his nephew Ryan Miller shrimping on the bayou outside Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 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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  • 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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  • Avery Serigne's first birthday party at Kimmie and Jami Serigne's home in St Bernard, LA on August 29, 2010.
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  • Boiling shrimp on Delacroix Island , LA August 26th, 2010.
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  • Blue Crab dealer Russell speaking with his only fishermen catching blue crab, Donald Campo at Delacroix Island, LA August 31, 2010. Jason Melerine with his family at his home in Poydras, LA on August 31, 2010.
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  • Sisters Gabbrielle Melerine, 4, left, Hailey Melerine, 7, Jason Melerine Jr., 2, and Hannah Melerine, 3, center, play on one of their father Jason Melerine's fishing boats in Poydras, St Bernard Parish, LA on May 20, 2010. The Melerine family origially settled in the area in the 1700's and have been fishermen in the area through the generations. Captain Eric Melerine crew on his crab boat include his brother Jason Melerine and cousin Lance Melerine, all affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with the oil threatening to the shut down the entire fishing industry.
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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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  • 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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  • Logan Serigne, 4, plays near his home in Poydras, LA on July  6th, 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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  • Contaminated boom is dropped off at Breton Sound Marina in Hopedale, LA, on August 30, 2010.
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  • Oil on the water Lake Campo and Black Bay on August 24th, 2010.
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  • A shrimp boat comes into Delacroix, LA on August 24th.
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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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  • Oil on the water Lake Campo and Black Bay on August 24th, 2010.
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  • Jason Serigne 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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  • Commercial shrimp boat captains Joseph Latapie, 72, left, Travis Latapie, Chris Battle and his wife Cierra Battle, listen to the BP representative answer questions about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at a Public Meeting at the Frederick J. Sigur Civic Center Ballroom in Chalmette, Louisiana on May 24th, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine with his family at his home in Poydras, LA on August 31, 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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  • Jason Serigne waves to an oil platform near California Bay as a tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico, LA on July 20, 2010.
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  • Oil washed up on the beach in Waveland, Mississippi on July 09, 2010.
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  • Kimmie Serigne with his wife Jami Serigne have fried shrimp for dinner with their sons Joseph Serigne, 1, left, and Morgan Serigne, 6, right, 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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  • Replacing hard boom around Bell Island, LA on July 20, 2010.
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  • Pelicans sit on boom near California Bay as a tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico, LA on July 20, 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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  • 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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  • Boat ride with NRDC members looking at oil spill sandbags on July 7th, 2010.
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  • Jason Melerine and his family in St Bernard, LA on November 14, 2010.
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  • Phong Nguyen, (left) from Luling, LA, helps unload boxes of donated food from Second Harvest Food Bank with Catholic Charities after waiting for 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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