Louisiana LNG Could be the Nail in the Coffin for Local Fishermen: “As recently as a generation ago, Cameron Parish was one of the biggest fishing and shrimping markets in the world … And now we’re looking at the complete annihilation of an industry.” – Zachary Norris, Niskanen Center
by Keith_McNeill65
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Does anyone know more about this? It sounds industrial users created a dredged waterway many, many years ago for the chemical facilities upstream… then fishers started fishing in it while traffic was lower.
“ The Calcasieu River is more of a ship channel than a natural river, engineered in a straight line to move industrial products to and from the large petrochemical complexes 50 miles north in Lake Charles.”
Now that LNG terminals are being built, the ship traffick in this waterway is busier, pushing fishermen out of the waterway which was originally designed for industrial use anyways. Is this right?
Sigh. Says man in Trump hat voting against his interests (not that Biden has been great)
I live in this area, yes, industry dredges the channels out, this has all kinds of consequences. The fisheries industry has been in decline for decades. What do you expect from a state owned by oil and gas. In Louisiana peoples health, quality of life and environmental quality take a back seat to oil and gas.