1) with total reef area within each basin ranging from ~369 acres in
Barataria Bay to ~690,000 acres in the Pontchartrain Basin (LDWF 2015).
Non-oiled or reference sites were located in Bay Sans Bois and Bayou Dulac in
Barataria Bay; oiled sites were located in Bay Batiste and Bay Jimmy in
Barataria Bay.
Members of the Consular Corps of New Orleans met and mingled with Filipino immigrants who have sunk roots in the Pelican State, many of whom, like the first Filipino settlers in the
Barataria Bay, have intermarried with native-born Americans.
Crab fishers (http://www.ibtimes.com/bp-oil-spill-has-lasting-economic-toll-five-years-after-deepwater-horizon-explosion-1883832) report that they don't catch nearly as much as they used to, beaches in Louisiana and elsewhere still get covered in thick globs of oil occasionally and, in places like
Barataria Bay in Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana, the spill had the effect of killing off most or all of its oyster reefs and driving away tourism.
The Bayou aux Carpes Site: Protecting
Barataria Bay (1985)
Oozing oil is a recurring yet elusive problem on the marsh in
Barataria Bay, just south of New Orleans.
Scientists caught dolphins in
Barataria Bay (BB), Louisiana, and a site thought to be uncontaminated, and found that forty-eight per cent dolphins were given a guarded or worse prognosis, and 17 per cent were given poor or grave prognosis, indicating that the marine mammals were not expected to survive, according to Examiner.com.
NEW YORK: ExxonMobil Pipeline Company said it had shut down a 12-inch pipeline carrying crude after finding an oil sheen in the water near
Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
Water temperatures and salt concentrations from the edge of the continental shelf and as close as the shallows of Chandeleur Sound and
Barataria Bay trigger complex movements of sea life, telling them when to spawn and where to feed.
Audubon sightings of oiled birds and their young on islands in
Barataria Bay and other Gulf locales suggest that many more will succumb to a variety of stresses, from poisoning to inadequate parenting--whole generations still could still be lost.
Dolphins are swimming in the pass too, a few dozen of an estimated 138 to 238 bottlenose dolphins that call
Barataria Bay home.