Fuel smell wafts over N.O. area
~April 29th MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite captured a natural-color image of the oil slick just off the Louisiana coast. ~NASA Earth Observatory
~It is advised that we should go get all the SEAFOOD we can fit in our kitchen since that will be Gone in a few days and after that for the foreseeable future in Louisiana.

Louisiana shrimpers sue BP over oil spill~Transocean and Halliburton also named as defendants~Hat Tweet~Gambit

~Hundreds of shrimping boats sail from here, dragging their nets around the inland estuaries and the rich seabed of the Gulf, which teems with white, pink and brown shrimp. Fishermen, commercial and recreational, scour the area for kingfish, red snapper and marlin. The Gulf region accounts for about a fifth of total U.S. commercial seafood production and nearly three-quarters of the nation's shrimp output, while nearly a third of all marine recreational fishing trips take place on Gulf waters, according to the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
"This is the Delta," said Robert Cossé, the marine division commander of Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office, while piloting a boat across the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Reserve. "Lots of life."

Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez ~Forbes