mr. blanchard, mr. cooper, mr. melancon, everyone wants the gulf seafood industry to rebound from the b.p. disaster. your city -- your industry did not cause this mess. your industry, your business and livelihoods were harmed by the spill. what would each of you ask the federal government to do to help establish the safety of gulf seafood and to help reassure the consuming public about the safety of gulf seafood? you heard the question that i posed to the government panel that appeared here earlier about the need for additional tests to be done to help address some of the issues that have not yet been definitively addressed such as the metabolytes of the oil, heavy metals and long-term impact that this disaster could have on the quality and productivity of seafood in the gulf. do you agree that those should be priorities and what other issues would you like the government to address? >> well, what i didn't like what i heard about the government is they looked like they were checking the open places. if it would be

mr. blanchard, mr. cooper, everyone, once -- they want the gulf to rebound. your industry did not cause this mess. you're likely harm some -- livelihoods were harmed. what did each of u.s. the federal government to do to help establish the safety of call seafood and to help reassure the consuming public about the safety of call seafood. you heard the question that i posed to to the government panel that appeared here earlier about the need for additional tests to help address some of the issues that have not definitively addressed the metabolism of the oil, the effect of the long-term impacts that this disaster could have on the quality and productivity of seafoods in the gulf. do you think that those should be priorities? what did you like the government to do? >> i did not like what i heard of of the government. i would be going to the worst place and checking that first. the government says, we just checked the open places, why don't you check the close places? no one seems to be checking? we have been severely harmed by this? since this happened, i got my

mr. blanchard, mr. cooper, everyone, once -- they want the gulf to rebound. your industry did not cause this mess. you're likely harm some -- livelihoods were harmed. what did each of u.s. the federal government to do to help establish the safety of cal seafood and to help reassure the consuming public about the safety of call seafood. you heard the question that i posed to to the government panel that appeared here earlier about the need for additional tests to help address some of the issues that have notdefinitively addressed the metabolism of the oil, the effect of the long-term impacts that this disaster could have on the quality and productivity of seafoods in the gulf. do you think that those should be priorities? what did you like the government to do? >> i did not like what i heard of of the government. i would be going to the worst place and checking that first. the governmentays, we just checked the open places, why don't you check the close places? no one seems to be checking? we have been severely harmed by this? since this happened, i got my sec

mr. blanchard, mr. cooper, everyone, once -- they want the gulf to rebound. your industry did not cause this mess. you're likely harm some -- livelihoods were harmed. what did each of u.s. the federal government to do to help establish the safety of call seafood and to help reassure the consuming public about the safety of call seafood. you heard the question that i posed to to the government panel that appeared here earlier about the need for additional tests to help address some of the issues that have not definitively addressed the metabolism of the oil, the effect of the long-term impacts that this disaster could have on the quality and productivity of seafoods in the gulf. do you think that those should be priorities? what did you like the government to do? >> i did not like what i heard of of the government. i would be going to the worst place and checking that first. the government says, we just checked the open places, why don't you check the close places? no one seems to be checking? we have been severely harmed by this? since this happened, i got my