NEW ORLEANS — Near a marina in St. Bernard Parish, slightly south and east of New Orleans, a sign read, “Caution Boaters: Do Not Disturb Booms in Water.” Yet as Gregg Arnold, a fly-fishing guide, navigated his skiff through the labyrinthine channels that slice through this portion of the Biloxi Marsh, there were no signs of booms, or the oil unleashed by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig last April 20.
In fact, there was not much of anything — no oyster boats, no shrimp boats, no other anglers. Just the occasional kingfisher perched on a branch, seabirds diving for bait and intermittent splashes that indicate big redfish.
Source: New York Times
