Barataria News

Jean Baptiste Lafitte may have been the most successful pirate to ever sail the blue Caribbean.

"I'm afraid that oil spill has ruined us. We're hardly unloading any brown shrimp at all." Ken Lee, shrimp dock owner LAFITTE - Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's oil catastrophe kicks into high gear.

Driving onto an Interstate highway? Crossing a bridge on the way into work? Taking a tunnel under a river or bay? Get ready to pay.

A team of scientists and technicians have uncovered the remnants of a shipwreck thought to be hundreds of years old about 200 miles off the coast of Louisiana, a scene complete with artifacts like navigational equipment, glass bottles, ceramic plates, and boxes of muskets.

It has been two years since the BP oil spill; however, some results of that oil spill are still continuing to show up.