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Mississippi. so far, state officials say there is no threat of state waters being affected. that could change. they will be continuing to monitor the situation throughout the rest of date. john? >> you know if the potential environmental impact in blue water where the tuna, the marlin, the sailfish, the wahoo run. >> reporter: absolutely. we have spoken with the u.s. fish and wildlife. that is a major concern for them, even given the conditions that we are dealing with right now. this is an area very big for tuna fishing and commercial fishing. that will be impacted. it would be more severely ...

Administration is announcing that with all the gulf states and the federal government to set safety levels for seafood coming out of the gulf. we want one single standard so y'all don't have to worry about where you fish, if you can fish, and when the waters are open, whether they are federal waters or state waters. and look, the bottom line is we want to get fishermen back out on the water as soon as possible after the oil has been removed. >> reporter: campbell, obviously, be really interesting to see here in the months and perhaps years ahead when these fishing waters are reopened and peopl...

More? this is, not to put too fine a point on it, our oil. and yet we're paying them to drill it. and then we're not collecting a percentage from it. even though it's ours and even though we bear the environmental disaster risk whenever anything goes wrong. the blood pressure down news about the new climate bill is coastal states can veto any new drilling projects within 75 miles of their coastline. governor charlie crist of florida is taking pre-emptive action, he's asking state legislators to approve a state constitutional amendment in florida to ban oil drilling in state waters forever. it'...

Their way to drill off the coast of florida. had the florida legislature going to let them drill three miles off the coast of florida in state waters. big oil has had its way among the regulators. there's been a cozy relationship. >> oh, those cozy relationships, huh? we're getting a major lesson on why government needs to enforce rules on big business. british petroleum was allowed to run roughshod on our waters with no real plan to fix damage if it had happened. they need really to worry about regulations. do we have that power? because they know not worrying about regulations they don't hav...