Sportsmen report pollutants off Calcasieu Point Landing

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HERE WE GO!!!!........Now just from looking at the pictures I can tell you that its just exhaust smut from crew boats....
One looks like a tide line with algae..... Man o Man....BP oil is all the way up to 210...

CALCASIEU PARISH, LA (KPLC) - Sports fishermen watch nervously as black sooty stuff and little chunks float on the water off Calcasieu Point.
Everyone is worried about whether oil from the Gulf will eventually find its way to Southwest Louisiana, and there's no indication the stuff is from the BP spill. Still, it is pollution of some type and it's not supposed to be there.
Here at Calcasieu Point Landing the whole point is fishing and crabbing. It's a favorite spot for those who love to fish so it's easy to understand why sports fishermen like Derick Burnett of Westlake are upset to see pollutants in the water. "Monday I brought my three year old son for his first fishing trip and I saw a glob of what looked like red tar, it was just one big glob and I was hoping it wasn't oil because my three year old caught his first fish and now it's all he's talking about his fishing and then I come out here this morning and I find thick spots all over and it's just breaking my heart.
Whatever it was, folks here hope it was a one time deal and not a sign of things to come. Says Burnett, "It looked like thin sheets of oil and then I also seen big spots with sort of a brownish tint to it, and then little chunks. I'm 99% sure it's oil. I don't know if its from the Gulf oil spill or the Port Arthur one or one of these ships just dumping stuff over the side, but it's definitely oil."
Charles Tolliver of Baton Rouge usually goes to Slidell to fish, but lately he says, "We came down this way because we were afraid of the oil."
He's not sure what to think about the stuff he sees here. "We don't ever know about Mother Nature. Don't know what Mother Nature's going to do. It wasn't there last week. I don't know whether it's oil or oily film coming down, or what. But I hope not. I hope it don't get this far and destroy our whole coast."
U.S. Coast Guard officials are investigating to try to identify the materials spotted by fishermen. We showed our video to officials in the local USCG office. They said they'd have a crew in the area investigate and take samples to see if they can identify what's in the water. They don't expect to have any results for a couple of weeks.