s blown-out well for more than two weeks,
state-controlled fishing areas in Louisiana, Florida and
Mississippi have slowly begun to reopen.
Despite splotches of chocolate-colored crude that wash up almost daily on protective boom and in marshes east of the Mississippi River, Louisiana has reopened those waters to fishing for such finfish varieties as redfish, mullet and speckled trout, and will allow shrimping when the season begins in two weeks.