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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..The Carnival Cruise ship 'Triumph' remains in port in Alabama undergoing repairs since the beleaguered ship was towed to port in February following a fire in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship recently broke its moorings and suffered damage at port following a severe storm. Operators continue to cancel sailings as overhaul work continues apace. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 Apr 2013. Mobile, Alabama..General Dynamics' fast, highly maneuverable Littoral Combat Ship (LCS class) Navy boat at the Austal dock in Mobile Bay..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 14 Apr 2013. New Orleans, Louisiana,  USA. .Carnival Cruise line's ship 'Conquest' pulls away from New Orleans on the Mississippi River as seen from the French Quarter. .Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 17th Feb, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Controversial cruise ships, Carnival Lines Ecstasy and Sensation lie at dock on the east bank of the Mississippi river. Both ships have been hired at vast expense to house police, fire fighters and many of the city's first responders and workers. However at the end of February, Ecstasy is due to sail, technically rendering homeless many of the city's vital first response teams at the hight of Mardi Gras. A stray dog, now common in New Orleans wanders along the shore line.
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  • 06 Sept 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana.  <br />
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Downtown New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The U.S Battleship Iwo Jima sits alongside the tourist river walk area as the sun sets on yet another day in the broken city.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 1 June, 2006. Lakeview, New Orleans, Louisiana. The first day of hurricane season 2006. Boats smashed by hurricane Katrina lie smashed in and out of the water at the New Orleans Marina, continuing to pollute the water and potentially provide debris problems in the event of a hurricane this season.
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  • 06 Oct, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
Moving out. Residents of St Charles Avenue in the Uptown neighbourhood bring in  U-Haul truck to take away their belongings as they prepare to start life anew away from New Orleans.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 05 May 2010. Venice, Louisiana. Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum environmental oil spill disaster.<br />
An oil rig sits close to the mouth of the Mississippi river just south of Venice. Rigs are dotted throughout the Gulf coast, many much closer to shore than the failed Deepwater Horizon platform.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 March 2014. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.<br />
Revealed in the mists of time - the WW2 USS Kidd (DD-661) Fletcher Class destroyer.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Lake Calcasieu shipping canal close to Cameron, Louisiana one day after the storm smashed the coastline. Oil industry rig support platforms prepare to put to sea to repair damaged rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil flowing to the U.S. mainland.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • Hurricane Rita - America's forgotten Hurricane.<br />
25th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita aftermath, Lake Calcasieu shipping canal close to Cameron, Louisiana one day after the storm smashed the coastline. Local man Aaron Stokes befriends a horse cut loose ahead of the storm.
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  • 26 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
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 Ships lifted from the water rest on the shoreline.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A kitten, close to death lays outside a smashed oil company residence and office along the shoreline of the shipping canal.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Lake Calcasieu shipping canal close to Cameron, Louisiana one day after the storm smashed the coastline. The shrimp boat the 'Cajun Queen' lies sunk in the town of Hackberry.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Lake Calcasieu shipping canal close to Cameron, Louisiana one day after the storm smashed the coastline. Oil industry rig support platforms prepare to put to sea to repair damaged rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil flowing to the U.S. mainland.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita aftermath, Lake Calcasieu shipping canal close to Cameron, Louisiana one day after the storm smashed the coastline. Dead cattle and other animals litter the banks of the canal.
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A horse, cut loose ahead of the storm wanders amidst the destruction.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A horse, cut loose ahead of the storm wanders amidst the destruction.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A military helicopter drops FEMA officials close to the bridge connecting Hackberry one day after the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A military helicopter drops FEMA officials close to the bridge connecting Hackberry one day after the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Oil industry rig support platforms prepare to put to sea to repair damaged rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil flowing to the U.S. mainland.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
What remains of the interior of an oil company office and living quarters after the tidal surge washed through the building.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
 What remains of the interior of an oil company office and living quarters after the tidal surge washed through the building.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A childs' hobby horse lies washed up with the words 'Jesus loves me' written on the runners. <br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Snakes are a danger to locals as they try to escape the saline water.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Dead cattle and other animals litter the banks of the canal.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Dead cattle and other animals litter the banks of the canal.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Inside a residence alongside the canal, smashed by the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Local man Aaron Stokes befriends a horse cut loose ahead of the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A horse, cut loose ahead of the storm wanders amidst the destruction.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A military crewman gives a thumbs up to local rescuers after his helicopter drops FEMA officials close to the bridge connecting Hackberry one day after the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept 2005. Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
A military helicopter drops FEMA officials close to the bridge connecting Hackberry one day after the storm. FEMA officials meet with local fire, police and civic leaders to discuss their plans.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
An oil platform support vessel slips out to sea as an oil spill ebbs into the channel from a ruptured pipeline close by.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
An oil platform support vessel slips out to sea as an oil spill ebbs into the channel from a ruptured pipeline close by.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.   Lake Calcasieu, Louisiana.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Oil industry rig support platforms prepare to put to sea to repair damaged rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to keep the oil flowing to the U.S. mainland. local man Aaron Stokes and his dog Maggie pass by the platforms.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Cameron, Louisiana. Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
Inside a residence alongside the canal, smashed by the storm.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
 Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water. Just beyond the smashed cemetery a cruise ship is moored alongside the Mississippi River, housing hundreds of recovery workers.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Shrimp imported from Texas at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans. Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Ashley Palmisano, a 22 year old single mother of two sells shrimp from A&B's seafood at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. Ashley worries that she may not have a job to go to in a couple of weeks. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood096.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood094.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Redfish at Ruthann & Rob's seafood. Currently $3.50 per lb at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood169.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Perhaps the last of local fresh blue crabs to arrive at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 24 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
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As reported in The Sun, London.<br />
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Banksy ‘thieves’ busted cutting original grafitti art work from shop wall<br />
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By JACK LOSH<br />
Last Updated: 24th February 2014<br />
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A BOGUS construction crew were chased off after they were busted cutting an original Banksy from a wall.<br />
One of the gang, who called himself Chris, was caught holding a power drill half-way through extracting the work by the British street artist.<br />
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Hidden by a temporary wall of plywood, he told snapper Charlie Varley that the 2008 artwork – dubbed “Umbrella Girl” – would be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy’s career.<br />
He added that it would be re-installed at its current location on the side of an abandoned store in New Orleans, US, once the exhibition had finished.<br />
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But when local residents quizzed the men and ordered them to show a permit for the operation, they packed up their equipment and scarpered.<br />
A security guard was installed at the scene on Friday to make sure the suspected thieves did not return.<br />
Clay Lapeyrouse, who lives nearby, said: “They were cutting it out of the building. The story they gave me just seemed weird."<br />
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Police are now hunting the suspects, aged between 25 and 35, following the incident.<br />
Banksy’s work fetches huge sums at auction, with his Kissing Coppers mural going under the hammer for £345,000 in the US last week.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A Banksy original street graffiti artwork known as 'Rain Girl' is chopped from a wall. A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris has prepared the wall for removal from an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy known as 'Rain Girl' from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 Sept 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. <br />
Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property. A shrimp boat in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property dumping ships on the Chef Menteur highway.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. A shrimp boat in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property dumping ships on the Chef Menteur highway.
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
The Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans. Ordinarily the market would be crammed with people on a Friday aftrenoon. Today it is virtually deserted. Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existent. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Wayne Herbert (l) and his Lenny Cook, market traders  at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Wayne Herbert (l) and his Lenny Cook, market traders  at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Shrimp imported from Texas at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans. Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Wayne Herbert, market trader  at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego weighs shrimp just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Seafood salesman Roy Rivet  at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Seafood salesman Roy Rivet  at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Children play on coolers full of fish at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Crawfish at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Shrimp imported from Texas at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans. Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Ivis Fernandez sells shrimp from A&B's seafood at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans.  Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existant. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 11june 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Shrimp imported from Texas at the Shrimp Lot in Westwego just outside New Orleans. Incomes have crashed as all seafood prices have risen over 30% in the past 4 weeks alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico threatens  the livelihood of many thousands of workers affiliated to the fishing industry in Louisiana. Earnings are down as much as  50% of those pre BP's oil disaster. Thousands of barrels of oil per day continues to leak into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught out of state or earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Louisiana stocks are virtually non-existent. With few new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Wayne Hebert of Ruth's seafood at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Perhaps the last of local fresh blue crabs to arrive at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Perhaps the last of local fresh blue crabs to arrive at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Westwego Fish Market. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Perhaps the last of local fresh blue crabs to arrive at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Ashley Palmisano, a 22 year old single mother of two sells shrimp from A&B's seafood at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. Ashley worries that she may not have a job to go to in a couple of weeks. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit;
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Angel Langlinais at Ruthann & Rob's seafood loads shrimp on the scales. Currently $4.25 for 10/15 count per lb at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Red snapper at Ruthann & Rob's seafood. Currently $4.75 per lb at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley.
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  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
Red snapper at Ruthann & Rob's seafood. Currently $4.75 per lb at the Westwego Fish market just outside New Orleans. All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood167.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood086.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood166.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood079.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood078.JPG
  • 07 May 2010. Westwego, Louisiana. <br />
All seafood prices have risen 25% in the past 7 days alone as stocks run low thanks to closed fishing grounds affected by oil pollution. Today was the opening day of the inshore shrimp season. The season was closed before it could open thanks to BP's disastrous environmental catastrophe out in the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 210,000 barrels of oil per day is leaking uncontrollably into the Gulf because of the explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform 46 miles out to sea. The closure of fishing grounds both east and west of the Mississippi river outflow is crippling thousands of local fishermen and all affiliated businesses and families who rely on the seafood industry. None of the shrimp or other seafood offered at the market are fresh catch from today. Everything has been through the IQF (Instant Quick Freeze) process and is seafood caught earlier in the season and brought from storage freezers in Venice and Grand Isle. Stocks are running low. With no new catches, the market will be forced to rely on farmed shrimp shipped in from Texas and Georgia. Local traders refuse to stock Chinese import fish raised with growth hormones, pesticides, fungicides and other contaminants widely found in Chinese farm raised seafood. Many fear losing their jobs and everything they own as a result of BP's Gulf Coast environmental disaster.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    10may10-seafood163.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A Banksy original street graffiti artwork known as 'Rain Girl' is chopped from a wall. A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris has prepared the wall for removal from an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy known as 'Rain Girl' from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 08 Sept 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. <br />
The Daily Mirror's Aidan McGurran in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property dumping ships on the Chef Menteur highway.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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