The oil matts are extensive and go alot further inland than Elmer's Island & Fourchon Beaches but these are areas the public visits which is why they closed these sections down and left open the even more extensive oiling further north for about 8 miles. DHH needs to shut this entire area down and the LDWF needs to immediately institute some protective creel limits for the areas outside of this impacted area to help rebuild our fishing stocks otherwise we are going to end up like the 1970's striper fishery on the Atlantic coast--barren.
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