Peter S. Floyd
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.
Carol Short
Stephanie Scull-DeArmey
Linda VanZandt
Peter Floyd was born in Mayport, Florida, and has spent his career as a commercial fisherman in Pascagoula Mississippi.
Scope and Content Note:
He discusses the following topics: Family, childhood spent at sea, commercial shrimping and fishing, working for NOAA, crabbing as a child, sea turtles, working for University of Georgia Marine Extension, working at a seaquarium in Skidaway Island, Georgia, closing of fishing areas, working as fireman, media's demonizing fishermen, research surveys of sea life, Mississippi Sound, Gulf of Mexico, over-regulation of fishing industry, need for regulation of oil industry drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, gillnets, bycatch, bait fish, marketing catch, snakes, turtles, making and repairing nets, multigenerational fishing in his family, Bonnet Carre Spillway, Hurricane Katrina, net ban, cast nets, hook-and-line fishing, casinos, aquaculture, sport fishing, issues regarding degradation of environment, BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster, BP's Vessels of Opportunity program, fish quotas.
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