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Lance Nacio, of Anne Marie Shrimp in Montegut, Louisiana, top, and deckhand Jorge Portillo travel past a dock and fishing camp damaged by Hurricane Ida as they harvest traps for blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers on Jan. 23, 2024. The area is affected by runoff from the Mississippi watershed including Midwest states like Illinois.
Lance Nacio, of Anne Marie Shrimp in Montegut, Louisiana, top, and deckhand Jorge Portillo travel past a dock and fishing camp damaged by Hurricane Ida as they harvest traps for blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers on Jan. 23, 2024. The area is affected by runoff from the Mississippi watershed including Midwest states like Illinois.
Lance Nacio, of Anne Marie Shrimp of Montegut, Louisiana, uses a stick to measure a blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers on Jan. 23, 2024.
Lance Nacio, of Anne Marie Shrimp of Montegut, Louisiana, uses a stick to measure a blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers on Jan. 23, 2024.
Roseate spoonbills fly in the Barataria Basin near Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024. Like the American flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived from small fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks and other animals in the wetlands. The area is affected by runoff from the Mississippi watershed, including states like Illinois.
Roseate spoonbills fly in the Barataria Basin near Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024. Like the American flamingo, their pink color is diet-derived from small fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks and other animals in the wetlands. The area is affected by runoff from the Mississippi watershed, including states like Illinois.
Lance Nacio, right, and deckhand Jorge Portillo harvest traps for blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.
Lance Nacio, right, and deckhand Jorge Portillo harvest traps for blue crab in the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.
Lance Nacio, right, tosses blue crabs into a box for shipping. Previously the crabs were stored in a bucket of ice to slow them down and stop them from pinching and moving but they start to wake up as he moves and Jorge Portillo moves them into the box.
Lance Nacio, right, tosses blue crabs into a box for shipping. Previously the crabs were stored in a bucket of ice to slow them down and stop them from pinching and moving but they start to wake up as he moves and Jorge Portillo moves them into the box.
Lance Nacio throws back a fish caught in a blue crab trap on Jan. 23, 2024.
Lance Nacio throws back a fish caught in a blue crab trap on Jan. 23, 2024.
Deckhand Jorge Portillo of Anne Marie Shrimp tosses back a trap for blue crabs near Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.
Deckhand Jorge Portillo of Anne Marie Shrimp tosses back a trap for blue crabs near Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.
Ducks take off in the wetlands of the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers near Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.
Ducks take off in the wetlands of the Barataria Basin between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers near Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish on Jan. 23, 2024.