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Fishermen in coastal New Orleans parishes identify a new safe harbor for hurricanes, but there’s a catch

Commercial fishermen in the  have identified a place to serve as a safe harbor for their boats during hurricanes, though they probably will have to spend at least one more hurricane season with no officially authorized place to go when a storm churns its way up from the Gulf of Mexico. After working with the U.S. Coast Guard, state- and parish-level offices and private landowners, fishermen have identified a stretch of the southern wall of the Hero Canal in Plaquemines Parish as a place where as many as 200 boats could tie up and ride out a hurricane. Read the rest here 17:34