Mr. Greco’s longtime
Coach factory outlet fishing partner, Stacy Geraci, 55, said his dread of thechanges that might be coming woke him up at night.
“You know how your life is,” Mr. Geraci said. “Well what if someone came in and said, ‘You’re not going to be like this anymore.’ How do you make that adjustment?”
Some are turning the question on BP, the multibillion-dollar corporation whose deepwater drilling accident has upended their lives.
“Are you going to take care of all the oysters I lost?” demanded Anthony Zupanovic, 30, of Belle Chasse, La., at a town-hall-style meeting with BP and Coast Guard officials in Plaquemines Parish on Wednesday evening. Because oysters cannot crawl or swim away, they are thought to be particularly vulnerable.
Yet the affirmative answer from Bob Fryar, a BP senior vice president, did little to
Coach Luggage Bags assuage Mr. Zupanovic, whose oyster beds were among many near the Mississippi River’s western bank, where black oil recently appeared.
“It makes you want to throw up when you see it,” Mr. Zupanovic said. “Because you know it’s coming and you can’t do anything about it.”
Just how BP will assess claims for lost income is the source of much anxiety along theLouisiana coast. Will the company also account for the upfront investment in oysters, where beds are seeded nearly two years before they are harvested, in a system more like farming than
Coach Tote Bags fishing? What if this shrimping season was shaping up to be the best since the early 1990s, as many fishermen contend?
