Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published December 13, 2012.
In New Orleans, the Vietnamese community was hit particularly hard by the 2010 oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico because so many Vietnamese work in fishing and fishing-related industries. However, even before the oil disaster, some community members were concerned about decreasing fishing stocks. In response, one group has started combining fishing and farming as a way to help fisher folk transition to a new source of income. FSRN'S Zoe Sullivan reports.
