Barataria News

In a different time, Jean Lafitte might have been just another successful businessman.

Fishers from St. Bernard, Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes on Monday night objected to the reliance of the state's proposed $50 billion, 50-year coastal restoration and protection master plan on large diversions of freshwater and sediment, charging that the freshwater will destroy their ability to catch shrimp and saltwater fish species.

Newswise - HAMMOND - O'Neil De Noux, author of numerous police and mystery novels and short stories, has written an extensively-researched story of love and war that takes place at the Battle of New Orleans.

Their laundry and meals are taken care of and they get paid pretty well - about $60,000 a year for a young roughneck, $90,000 for a young engineer and $150,000 for a supervisor.

I don't care whether you're gonna fish at Shell Beach, Hopedale, Cocodrie, Delacroix, Geoghagen's Canal, or anywhere down the Barataria, if you expect to put any fish at all in the boat - and in your ice chest - this weekend, all my fishing buddies and charter captains agree that the howling winds we've had all week have dirtied up the water and ... (more)