is struggling under the weight of thick crude oil never cleaned up. this is ail oil keeps getting pushes further and further with the tide movement up here into the marsh. reporter: plackman s parish president billy nunguesser has been sounding the alarm for nearly a year now and he says no one is listening. wildlife is being affected. marsh is being eaten away. there is no sense of your again system the coast guard is still standing there, defending bp instead of defending the american people and the gulf coast. reporter: almost everywhere you go here people are frustrated and angry. they insist bp hasn t done enough to repair the damage to the environment, or the economy. dean blanchard s shrimp business collapsed when the fishing ground were closed last year. bp he says, only gave him one-third of the compensation he was looking for. i figure i should have grossed about $5 million this year. i should have had three
about this in the west and other places. thank you both. jenna: another issue of debate alaska s fishing industry is facing a major blow. the obama administration plans to close a key fishing ground to protect sea lions there, that is a move that could cause hundreds of jobs. dan springer reporting live in seattle on this. dan. reporter: yeah, jenna, this recommendation comes at a critical time with the obama administration with the upcoming elections and they are trailing in the polls getting hammered because people say they are not creating jobs. this bill would kill good paying jobs in the hopes of helping sea lions. the population of the world s largest sea lion has been shrinking along the western edge of ask answer alou shan islands so they recommend the drastic step of closing down two fisheries. the endangered species act puts the burden on the government of proceed tepbgt being protecting the
they closed the fishing ground. none of these boats are working. don t have much left with the freshwater and oil is coming, it s a dual thing, probably destroy everything out there. what freshwater doesn t kill, the oil will kill it all. then that s it. game over. a lot of dead oysters right here in this spot last time i was out here. one live crab. that s recent. everything is dying. that s dead. that s dead. that s dead. it s all within two weeks. when they die, they break apart. this doesn t stay long. this does not stay it goes like this, like this stuff. see all this stuff? dead. after so many days, this is fresh kill. these are all dead. it s disgusting. this is i mean, it takes an oyster from this oyster is about three months old.
recently some oyster beds that were closed because of the spill were reopened. and that should be encouraging news, but it s not for some oyster men here. here is why. louisiana is diverting freshwater from the mississippi to push away oil from the marshes. when freshwater mixes with saltwater, oysters can die. oyster men have known that. they ve known these days are coming but these days, in fact, are here. oysters are dying. take a look. these boats are tied up. they closed the fishing ground. none of these boats are working. don t have much left with the freshwater and oil is coming, it s a dual thing, probably
of the event. the explosion, even if the oil does not reach your beach or fishing ground until day 81. this as the oil is still making new ground, reaches lake pontchartrain and texas. it will be another two to four days before bp can hook up a third collection vessel. the helix that will double the collection capacity at the spill site. we are joined now by mitch weiss. one of the correspondents who broke the story about the gulf s abandoned wells. mr. weiss, thank you for your time tonight. thank you for inviting me, keith. can you quantify this problem? how many inactive wells in the gulf? how many only temporarily capped? how many do we need to worry about? well, we were able to crunch data and we found that there are 27,000 abandoned wells. within that, there s a subset of 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells.