Questions Linger as Shrimp Season Opens in Gulf | NYTimes.com

Well before dawn on Monday, Nicky Alfonso set out down Bayou Terre aux Boeufs in his 38-foot shrimping boat, heading for open water. It was the first day of the first white shrimp season in Louisiana since the BP oil spill, and normally there would have been enough boats to make for a crowded, competitive rodeo of a day...

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