Cutoff—
It's a super-slow holiday at 1st Cast in Cutoff, a gas station, deli and all-purpose stop and grab for people who make their living on the water.Memorial Day Monday's here are usually bustling with "People from all over wanting to fish from Baton Rouge to New Orleans everywhere, but today is like a ghost town. It's dead.Nobody's come in for bait because they don't have nowhere to fish," said Katherine Galliano the store employee who today spent most of her shift walking these isles trying to pass time.
Recent closures of shrimp trawling, crabbing and alligator farming spots around the bayous outside the shop have made the normally-bustling business a bust. Just ask shrimp trawler dante Plaisance, who lives on the bayou. He got a call from bp today. The company wants him to use his shrimp boat to start skimming oil. It's a job, but it isn't the same.
"We don't but hardware, supplies, gas station people are affected. It affects everybody in circles," said Plaisance.
It's taken a month for him to get the call to return to work, and in that time, making ends meet has gotten harder for those who work on the water and around it.
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