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Being tested are literally treated like evidence. you have to keep track of where it's been and who has handled it. this is the testing facility. these are fish over here that are being tested, trying to figure out if, indeed, they are safe. aluminum foil, special instruments, workers wearing gloves. they want to be very careful not to contaminate any of these fish, to make sure their records and testing are as accurate as possible. thousands of fish being tested since april 28th, a week after the oil spill. they're being brought here in these huge ice units. we're here in mississippi. got a l...

They lost their jobs and livelihood because of bp's negligence, they ought to be putting the money in their pockets than in a pr campaign. >> no surprise, people are fired up about this. as i've been talking to people, there's a lot of anger, understandably so. moving forward, trying to come up with solutions, what needs to be done down here to restore some of what john is talking about? >> first of all, you restore hope and we take that $25 billion that already has been put in by mr. feinberg and give it to fishermen, oil sh shuckers, give them money right now. bp is sending hundreds and hund...

Got a lot of fish behind us here. >> bagged and tagged. >> bagged and tagged, yes, they are. very important so we know where they come from. >> this is part of the process? >> part of the process. >> this is john stein. >> you go around the country, talk to people about what's happening in the gulf. the question always comes up, is the seafood safe. >> yes. >> and you say? >> yes. we have an extensive program in place, cooperative program between noaa, fda, epa, gulf states and we're all working together to ensure that seafood is safe. >> but no one can be sure. that's because we don't know ex...

Concerned about what he has or has not done down here. >> very first president in history, we're excited about that. but we are saying we would like to see president obama do the same thing that he did for the mortgage company, the banking company. he would have these town hall meetings where he would have dialogue with the community. we're saying that the fishermen in our community deserve that meeting. the president of louisiana arts, gary bartholomew, prepared to have a dialogue. we're saying the president order that visit. we think that we need it and we're hoping that he honor our request...

of days ago. unfortunately all the oysters that came in were actually dead as a result of what's happening out there. these are the dredges themselves. typically they'll bring in 180 to 200 bags of oysters and each of those bags you have a couple hundred oysters. imagine all of that. now look at this boat. it is in a complete state of disrepair, hardly anything is happening here at all and people can't even maintain the repairs that are necessary to happen. if you look over there, you see boat after boat after boat. this is what's happening. typically, they bring in $5,000 a day, tha...