Larry Ryan
Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History
NOAA's Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Oral History documents the experience of people living in Gulf of Mexico oil-spill-affected fishing communities. The oral history data complements other social and economic data about the spill collected by NOAA and other governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey
Linda VanZandt
Larry Ryan, a Pascagoula fisherman, discusses his career mullet-fishing, shrimping, oystering, and crabbing.
Scope and Content Note:
He addresses the following topics: Fishing circa 1950s, 1960s; manually-facilitated nets, row boats for commercial fishing; gillnets; Mississippi Sound; locating fish without sonar; species in the Mississippi Sound; Biloxi bacon, popeye mullet; cooking fish at campsites on barrier islands; mullet stew; subsistence fishing; family of fishermen; regulations; crabs, oysters, shrimp; sponge crabs; BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster; pogy fish; fishing equipment; imported and farm-raised seafood; fuel costs; recreational fishermen; marketing catch; live-bait fishermen; sustainability issues of fisheries; Pascagoula River; oil dispersant; insurance issues; Hurricane Katrina; BP lost-income claims process; Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; freshwater diversion kills oysters; working for BP after Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Vessels of Opportunity; favorite seafood dishes.
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