NEW ORLEANS (CNN) – Fishermen in coastal Louisiana say hundreds of crabs caught near Saint Bernard Parish were full of oil, rendering their day's catch useless. Now they're calling for testing to see if those crabs were contaminated from BP oil.
Tuesday was supposed to be a very productive day for B&K Crabbing, but when one of the fishermen brought his catch back to the dock, seafood dealer Kevin Heier says he knew something wasn't right.
"We dumped them in ice water, picked the box up, dumped them on the table, and the smell like to knocked us down," Heier said. "[We] emptied the box of crabs and the water that was coming off the crabs on the table was just like a sheen."
Heier believes the crabs were contaminated with oil.
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