Commercial Fishermen Drove Recovery in Aftermath of Katrina

Nearly twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southern Plaquemines Parish on August 29, 2005. The subsequent impacts, damage, and recovery effort is a story that's well known by any resident of the parish or the southeast Louisiana region. But while Katrina's general devastation and the long, arduous recovery was experienced by everyone, the commercial fishermen of Plaquemines faced their own unique set of challenges during the storm, in its immediate aftermath, and in the longrange recovery that followed...
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