BATON ROUGE, La. — Oyster fishermen don’t know if they’ll be paid by BP for the shellfish deaths caused by opening the state’s freshwater diversion structures in a bid to flush out oil encroaching on the oyster beds because of the Gulf spill.
The decision to open the release valves on the Mississippi River diversions was [...] [...]
GULF OF MEXICO — Due to reports of unusually high numbers of endangered sea turtle sightings and strandings in Mississippi, an effort is being made to increase the survivability of any sea turtles that may become captured in a skimmer shrimp trawl.
To support this effort, the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) is partnering with the [...] [...]
GULF OF MEXICO — The executive directors of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality have issued an emergency order requiring the removal of all crab traps effective July 28 from Mississippi territorial marine waters, which were already under precautionary closure to all commercial and recreational fishing, including all [...] [...]
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