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It's been incredibly frustrating to see that so much of our fisheries and so many of our coastal communities in extreme south, especially southeast louisiana, are closed off fishing because of the inundation of so much oil coming into the marshes there. each day it gets closer and closer to the coastline and we have more precautionary closings issued on a daily basis. i don't think there's ever been a point in history where a chef was so familiar with what exact area each oyster, each shrimp, each crab, in each fin fish comes from. >> i've said to all the chefs in my restaurant, we have to sti...

Fisheries and so many of our coastal communities and extreme south, especially southeast louisiana, are closed off fishing because of the inundation with so much oil coming into the salt marsh estuaries there where all the shrimping takes place. each day oil gets closer and encroaches closer into the coast line. and we have more precautionary closings issued on a daily basis. i don't think there's ever been a point in history where a chef was so familiar with what exact area each oyster, each shrimp, each crab and each fin fish comes from. >> i've said to all the chefs in my restaurant we have...

Area each oyster, each shrimp, each crab and each fin fish comes from. >> i've said to all of the chefs in my restaurant, we have to still keep buying fish and seafood from the gulf. the whole gulf is not affected, and i think it's important for us to go back in there and buy shrimp and crab, red fish and snapper in the places they're available. >> it's affected the places where i get my fish, how accountable from the fisherman and the following back to the exact boat. >> i don't 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 ...

However, in southern louisiana, the situation is different. oil has coated the marshes and they have had 26 different times where oil has been identified in less than a 24 hour span. so the clean up will continue there for quite some time. again, a bit of the good news, some of the water has been reopened for fishing. people can fish recreation ali and commercially. and that includes fin fish. the animals at the bottoms oysters and crabs will be held off for additional tissue testing. so it will be interesting to see what those results might be in the coming days back to you. >> reynolds, bp w...