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Many of the fishermen in BP’s Vessels of Opportunity program to clean up the Gulf oil spill say they spend most of their time sitting in their boats with nothing to do.
“They just wait because there’s no direction,” Rock Ditcharo, a Louisiana shrimp dock owner, told the Associated Press. BP has hired 2,000 boats “to show numbers,” he added.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said that BP and the Coast Guard gave a map with the locations of 140 skimmers deployed. But officials later told him only 31 skimmers were working, he said.
According to the Coast Guard, 550 skimmers are working to contain the spill which some estimates indicate has surpassed the Ixtoc I spill of 1979 are the biggest in the history of the Gulf.
Only approximately 3,000 of the 20,000 volunteers who have signed up to clean beaches and wetlands have received an assignment.
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