to her left is patrick riley. patrick is a shrimp fisherman. but he's more than a shrimp fisherman. he's also general manager of an outfit called western seafood company and actually from freeport, texas, not from louisiana. but that's still the gulf coast. he's been instrumental in developing some of the apparatuses to help make shrimp fishing less damaging to sea turtles and other sea life that we care about there. so he's been quite involved in that. and mike is from louisiana, way down on the big foot where louisiana sticks out into the gulf of mexico. it's one of the gulf of mexico's largest otherwiser harvesting companies. are your oisters being served here tonight? so you will have a chance to taste his oysters when we are done here. i'm delighted that he's here. and you've already heard from dr. lubchenko. so there we are. let me turn to done boesch and say, ok, it's been a year since the oil spifment how do things look? when we saw the videos that brought back all the memories of how horrible everything looked a year ago, what's the state of the gulf right now from the posi

to her left is patrick riley, a shrimp fisherman, but he is more than a shrimp fishermen. as a general manager of this outfit called western seafood co. -- he is from freeport, texas. he is a developmental in fishing apparatus. he has been quite involved in that. mike is from motivate seafood in louisiana. one of the gulf of mexico's largest oyster harvesting and processing companies. are your oysters been served tonight? taste have a chance to his oysters in the food hall when we are done. i'm delightful that he is here. you have already heard from the doctor. let me start by turning to don. ok, it has been one year since the oil spill. how does it look? when we saw those videos, it brought back memories of how horrible everything looked a year ago. how is the gulf? >> nature is a wonderful thing. it treated oil as an organic some strain. a lot of things grew. for the most part, it is no longer there. there are a number of issues that we need to resolve about lingering effects. she also indicated there's a natural resources damage assessment to carefully quantify the impa