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This is the area where all of our shell fish are raised and born here. we have to be concerned about all of this. not only that, the juveniles, the embryos, the eggs, and larva of all these species are coming in contact with the sub-surface oil. there is no question they have done a tremendous job on cleaning up the surface. we have to clean up the bottoms. >> thats the part you cannot see. you brought with your presence here today some pictures, some photographs of what we are up against out th...

Garden that day ♪ ♪ i wish at that she was not cra crazy... ♪ (applaus (applause) >> so, im sure you heard about that terrible mess thats in the gulf. >> yeah, yeah, its awful. crude oil everywhere. >> i wrote a song about it. ♪ hey, crude, dont make a splash ♪ ♪ british petroleum, dont be so selfish ♪ ♪ remember to have a little heart and its not smart to kill all our shell fish ♪

The caharismatic species. but there are 400 being affected by this oil. they all come togethero tell a story. and these are resources that we depend upon. its not just about our national natural legacy at stake for which the state of louisiana is the steward of. were talking about shell fish, we depend upon. 70% of the shrimp and oysters come from this region. when you see this survivor, this kemps ridley sea turtle fighting for survival, hes telling a story, telling us the gulf waters are serio...

What was that a month and a half ago? we still dont have oil here. >> they say this is like digging postholes but they do this while balancing on beat up wooden boats not much bigger than a king-sized bed. >> you can see the men and women of the bay out here from sun up to sundown, and they say they see their families the shell fish from the wars and they say the shell fish are good to eat. >> you give them a taste test and see how salty they are. if they are real salty, they are better. >> and ...

Of chefs that went to louisiana over the weekend, tell me a little bit about what you saw. >> a very special event for us to go down there and thought it was important to bring chefs in from all over the country and basically it was to bring a bunch of great chefs down there to educate us on whats really going on with hopes that we can go back and continue to educate our diners and thats what happened. and it was, there was a lot going on. we saw a lot of oil and we saw a lot of people standing ...

Are available. >> definitely i think of where i get my fish from and how accountable it is from the fishermen and the traceability back to the exact boat. and thats something i always take into consideration. >> i dont look at seafood the same right now. i think oh, my god. this could be the last time in how many years we might be able to taste fresh shell fish from our own coast and i feel like the future might be importing which is just awful. >> i think as chefs we can pretty much get whateve...

Documentary about prudence this week on hbo. its called "music by prudence" that debut ons may 12th. in the oil explosion in the gulf of mexico, could cost bp upwards of $3 billion. the cost of the fish and shell fish in the gulf, thats not yet known. the government has banned fishing in the water stretching from eastern louisiana to the florida panhandle. that ban will be resaesd in the next several days. experts think that fish eggs, shrimp, coral, oysters are potentially the most at risk. m...

>> yes. so many folks, certainly the gulf coast, been through so much. they know how to take a licking and keep on ticking as the saying goes. >> well talk about the economic impact happening on a large scale to the entire region. it could cost billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of jobs and one industry alone. >> josh levs here for a good view of that. >> we are taking what patrick showed us and multiplying it by an incredible number of families. we hear the impact on the fishing industr...

Chandeleur islands. is there any sign of this environmental, wildlife catastrophe that we have been expect sng. >> most of the problem is like sweeping it under the rug. the dispersements have been put under the water are doing the oil itself is now floating. the oil that is under the water is doing damage where we cant see it. some is come ago shore. a lot of it is under the gulf of mexico. this big mass of oil and dispersements is now moving around in different directions. we are not certain w...

Millions of them. ill grab a towel now. this stuff is rubbing up against the side of the boat. there it is. thats whats in the water. thats sticking to the side of the boat right there. if this is doing this to the boat, what is it going to do to anything that lives in this water? >> its going to be very, very hard on the fish and shell fish. >> and the oil seems to go on forever. >> over here, as far as the eye can see there is, like, a red line of that oil going right across the gulf of mexico...