Nueva Pescanova: La segunda vida de Rodolfo Langostino | Negocios
elpais.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elpais.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
in part because there is a perception problem there, more than 60% of the people now say they have a fear of how safe the food is, no matter what the government says about the safety of the oysters and the fish coming from the bay. the other thing is, there are questions about whether the payouts are fair. what are you hearing from your constituents? well, first of all, let me say that louisiana seafood is safe. there has been an unprecedented level of state and federal testing to ensure the safety of our seafood. so gulf shrimp, oysters, the fish in the gulf of mexico, are very safe. and louisiana seafood is really one of the basic foundations of our seafood for the rest of the country. so it is important that we have we get over that false perception that it is not safe. but secondly, on the gulf coast restoration or gulf coast compensation fund, we have serious problems. i heard recently from aç young woman whose family is in the shrimp business, they have
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
now sit idle. unpredictable for the future of the shrimp business and shrimp industry, we need some sort of financing income reporter: the coast guard performs safety check. safety for the boats but what about the crew? we ve got to do it and take risks on that. reporter: you need the money so you start doing it? yes, sir. reporter: it is a desperation like that that has officials worried because a lot of fishermen talk pretty tough. behind me, we saw three or four boats leave a few minutes ago to head out to sea to start laying more of that. they laid 1 million feet of it and they have 1 million left they can put out there, not to mention the skimming efforts underway as the slick continues to grow. dolphin island, they are setting up snar nets to snare tar balls
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.