(LouisanaWeekly.com) — Since BP’s oil rig exploded last month, life has gotten a lot tougher for Louisiana’s minority fishermen, who were already struggling with over-harvesting, expensive fuel and weak seafood prices-not to mention a series of hurricanes. The state’s coastal fishing industry is a gumbo of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, African-American, Native American and Hispanic boat and dock owners, deckhands and other workers. The industry includes Caucasian ethnic groups, like the entrenched Cajun community, Croatians and others from the former Yugoslavia, along with the Islenos-originally from the Canary Islands.
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