Oyster Overharvesting in Calcasieu Estuary in 2010- 2011: References needed

[Smalls]

I guess we will just have to see. Very few of these projects are being implemented right now anyway. The money isn't there yet. Once that BP Suit is over, then some more of these will be able to get going.

For the record, I'm not really for or against the barrier. There's two sides to the argument. You've got economics on one side, and conservation on the other. Quite frankly, there is no saving SWLA from all the damage that has been done. It's just going to be the same old "Pump dredge spoil on the beach every X amount of years because its all slowly washing away every time" kind of thing forever. You've got very little sediment to naturally replenish the beaches, and you've got nothing really protecting the marshes.

I've never thought CPRA's plan was very good. In fact, I think 95% of it is pretty damn stupid! They completely ignored most of the priority areas. The only marsh restoration they planned in pretty much the entire SWLA area was the area west of Rockefeller, which is owned by a very wealthy family. A good chunk of that money is being planned on levees around Lake Charles, Kaplan, Gueydan, and other coastal cities. It's pretty much a give up on SW-SCLA.

"Let's just levee the cities and protect them, forget the rest". That is basically the motto of that Plan. Anyone that wants to do something good gets shot down if it isn't in one of their "Priority areas".