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Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Norman Yandell | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Norman Yandell is a resident of Long Beach, Mississippi, a net-maker, creator of Norm Bait handmade lures, and a lifelong fisherman on the Gulf Coast. Yandell was born on August 12, 1934, in Gladewater, Texas, to Jessie Andrew Yandell and Minnie Quave Yandell (born December 25, 1918, in Poplarville, Mississippi). Yandell moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a young boy, residing with his mother and his stepfather Earl Holley (born January 1, 1916). |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Long Beach, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Oliver Goldsmith Brown | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Oliver Goldsmith Brown IV is a retired oil field engineer who worked on a sailing, commercial fishing vessel as a teenager in the 1950s in the Gulf of Mexico. Brown was born on December 3, 1940, in Morton, Mississippi. He grew up in Morton and later moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he lived with his uncle and aunt. Brown's family had a history of involvement in the fishing industry, and he began working as a fisherman at a young age. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | West Hattiesburg, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Oscar Sanzin | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Oscar Sanzin was born October 15, 1925, in Yugoslavia. When he was thirteen years old, the Nazis overran his hometown in Yugoslavia, destroying the town and killing its occupants. Sanzin escaped and served in the Resistance. He was later a prisoner of war in Germany, and he was taken to Africa in the hold of a ship as a slave laborer. He was liberated by the Americans, and he immigrated to the United States where he became a commercial fishermen on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. On June 22, 1950, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, he married Helen Martin (born July 12, 1930). |
Barbara Hester | Gulfport, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Paul Latapie, III | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Paul Latapie is a third-generation commercial fisherman who resides in Violet, St. Bernard Parish, La. |
Barbara Hester | St. Bernard Parish, LA | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Peter S. Floyd | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Peter Floyd was born in Mayport, Florida, and has spent his career as a commercial fisherman in Pascagoula Mississippi. |
Barbara Hester, Louis Kyriakoudes | Pascagoula, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Qui Lam | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Qui Lam is a Vietnamese-American shrimper living in Houma, Louisiana. Mr. Qui Lam was born in 1961, one of eight children, near the city of Rach Gia, South Vietnam. His father’s name was Bung Lam. His mother’s name was Hui Trang. Mr. Lam is of Chinese and Vietnamese descent. At a young age, Mr. Lam traveled with his father by boat to the market to help buy merchandise to resell in his stores, which were later taken by the Communist regime. After 1975, Mr. Lam began shrimping to earn a living, in addition to growing watermelon and potatoes. Mr. |
Linda VanZandt, Linh Lam | Houma, LA | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Ran Bui | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Ran Bui is a Vietnamese-American shrimper in Biloxi, Mississippi. Mr. Ran Bui was born in 1960, one of eleven children, and raised in the port city of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam. Mr. Bui’s parents are originally from Hai Phong in the north of Vietnam. His father, Canh Bui, was a member of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnamese Army) and a fisherman; his mother, Mau Thi Nguyen, fished with the family and worked for a seafood company processing oysters and shrimp. Mr. Bui began fishing with his father at age eleven. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | D’Iberville, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Robert McDuffie | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Mr. Robert McDuffie is a subsistence fisherman living in Moss Point, Mississippi. McDuffie was born on March 19, 1941, in Semmes, Alabama, to Robert Lee McDuffie (born April 1, 1905) and Oren Moss McDuffie. He and his wife Jerry were married in Moss Point, Mississippi. They have three children, Stephanie Swinea (born January 2, 1961), Jeffrey McDuffie (born January 18, 1963) and David McDuffie (born March 1, 1970). McDuffie has fished all of his life for subsistence. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey | Pecan, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Roscoe Liebig | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Roscoe Liebig is a former commercial fisherman and currently operates a baitshop in the Pass Christian, Miss. harbor. |
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey, Barbara Hester | Pass Christian, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute | |
Suong Ngoc Nguyen | Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History |
Reverend Suong Ngoc Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American living in Biloxi, Mississippi, serving the Vietnamese community, there, many of whom work in the fisheries system. Nguyen was born, one of four children, in 1944 in Cambodia (to Vietnamese parents), but was raised in Tay Ninh Province in South Vietnam. Her grandfather was a leader of the Cao Dai religious group in Tay Ninh Province. Her father sold goods in a market and disappeared one day in 1946 during the French-Viet Minh war. |
Linda VanZandt, Angel Truong Phan | Biloxi, MS | NOAA-NMFS, University of Southern Mississippi - Northern Gulf Institute |