Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Headquarters for Coast Guard assistance following Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Map showing location of wrecked and stranded boats. Over 4,000 commercial fishing vessels and 25,000 pleasure vessels were casualties of Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A lucky boat that was still floating with its Coast Guard case number painted on its side.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A Vietnamese shrimp fishermen next to his salvaged boat.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A local fish processor next to a still floating boat.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Vietnamese fishermen working on a boat engine post-Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Nancy and Wayne Weikel with Rusty Gaude on the right planning fishery recovery strategy.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Evaluating damage was the first step in recovery efforts.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Getting shrimp caught and processed and off to market was a goal of the fisheries recovery team.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Getting local seafood industries back to normal business operations was the goal of the fisheries recovery team.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Rebuilding critical infrastructure such as ice plants was the a major step in recovery efforts.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A pre-Katrina SeaGrant meeting.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Pre-Katrina students on the docks.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Going to stakeholder facilities to learn more about concerns and issues.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Pre-Katrina meeting with local aquaculture industry representative s.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Track of Hurricane Katrina showing passing right over Plaquemines Parish as first landfall.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Satellite imagery of the Plaquemines Parish.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. What a mess! Cars, debris and boats jumbled together far from their original locations.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Temporary quarters in trailers outside of SeaGrant building which had its roof blown off.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. FEMA/SeaGrant Office outside of SeaGrant building. This served as HQ for the fisheries recovery team.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Interior of SeaGrant office trailer.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Large military helicopters helping with levee repair.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Large military helicopter carrying seven tons of sand each load help repair the levee.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Pre-Katrina Premier Bait Shop.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Post-Katrina Premier Bait Shop.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Exterior of Premier Bait Shop post-Katrina. No bait, no fishermen.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Total infrastructure damage shut down Plaquemines Parish commercial fishing. Virtually all fish processing facilities were similarly affected.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A planning and evaluation meeting to help get the fisheries infrastructure rebuilt.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Wayne and Nancy Weikel meeting with local fishermen 44 days after Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Holding the initial stakeholder town meeting with local fishermen .

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Using a boat bottom as an information bulletin board.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Coast Guard case number painted on fishing boat.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Parish Government forum meeting to discuss fisheries issues.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. 85% of regional fisheries harvest vessels were disabled by Hurricane Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. 4000 commercial and 25000 recreational vessels were disabled or destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A Grand Bayou school boat pre-Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A Grand Bayou school boat sunk at its moorings post-Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Daybrook Menhaden boats swept inland.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Daybrook Menhaden boats swept inland.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Daybrook Menhaden boats swept inland. Beginning the refloating operations.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Coast Guard barge used for clearing waterways.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Coast Guard barge used for salvaging boats and clearing waterways.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Sometimes it was difficult to tell debris from salvageable boats.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Sunken vessels obstructing waterways.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A melange of vessels swept ashore during Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A unique Rules of the Road situation. Who has the right-of-way?

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Debris swept far from its original location.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. No homes for the local populace to go home to as many were destroyed during Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Sediment and debris filling a local waterway.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Sediment and debris make it difficult to tell if this is still a navigable waterway.