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Originally Posted by "W"
Which has the healthier looking fish
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Last year's study answered that question between Big Lake and the oil spill affected area (Barataria and Terrebonne Bays), and the answer was that the oil spill impacted area had fish with higher condition factors than the Calcasieu Estuary. This year, we decided to focus our data collection on the Calcasieu Estuary, and we are not weighing and measuring nearly enough fish in Grand Isle to draw any comparisons like we did last year. We'll measure a few fish to see if there is anything of interest happening, but our numbers will only be sufficient to form a hypothesis for future work, not to compare with Calcasieu this year. Other than the recreational aspects, the goal of the Grand Isle trip was more to scope things out for future work than collect enough data for a valid regional assessment in 2012.