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BP Oil Hits Barataria Oyster Fishing Grounds

Sunday, 06 June 2010 00:00

Rosie Philippie, of the near extinct Atakapa-Ishak tribe is interviewed by Dean Wilson (basinkeeper.org ) . The 10 or so families make their living on the oyster grounds in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. These ground have now been inundated with oil from the BP oil spill, though disaster is more like it.

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