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The way that it's handled. >> i mean, the other alternative could be, a, that they believe in the dispersants or don't believe in the skimmers or, b, that they're simply incompetent or just not doing a very good job. >> well, anderson, it's a grand experiment on an unprecedented scale. and unfortunately, i don't know that we're going -- you and i are going to know the results of this experiment until we get 20 years down the road. i think we know what the result would be if we put an armada of vessels out there and gathered the oil off the surface and took it out of the gulf. we know what woul...

Oysters more than three weeks ago. how many oysters would you bring in on a normal day? >> prior to the shutdown i was averaging 150 sacks. >> reporter: though the state of louisiana today reopened the waters here to shrimpers and oystermen, mitch isn't going to farm oysters just yet. he's not convinced the oil isn't still here. besides, he doesn't have a crew anymore. they've all taken jobs with bp. every day he still goes out on the water. >> this is the first area where i spotted, you know, heavy oil. >> reporter: the heavy oil is gone for now. but he thinks there may still be oil and dispe...

I appreciate you being on with us tonight. our invitation stands as always to bp to come on. more now on the skimmer shortage and the red tape angle. i talked about it just a short while ago with james carville and the president of plackman's parish. they're still in need of skimmers to -- to pick this oil up. does this make any sense for you? >> it's -- how do you say we're at war and we're still piece mealing this thing one skimmer at a time, two skimmers at a time. maybe we'll set aside the jones act. maybe it doesn't have to be set aside. by now we should have a clear picture of where all ...

And talked about, you know, what it's like for -- >> or even let real reporters out to see it, you know, and to talk to these people freely to see who is controlling the remote controlled vehicles, to narrate during these operations what is going on. that's stunning, the fact that they will not narrate like nasa does during a space launch what is actually happening underwater. >> the reason they don't let you out there is one word. and it not plastic. it's lawyers. they do not move unless some lawyer in houston or washington or london tells them what to do. and that lawyer is saying the last t...

Dispersants to keep the oil from not coming to the surface for financial motives and not using these skimmers? >> i -- i have been working on this project of trying to get these skimmers into the gulf for over a month now. everybody in europe where standard practice is to raise the oil and to collect it is scratching their heads and, quite honestly, laughing at what's happening in the gulf. this is -- and i've educated myself over the last month as i've gone through this process of trying to get these skimmers here because it seems self-evident that these skimmers are needed. people are down t...