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.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Private contractors helped clear waterways and salvage vessels.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Coast Guard representative being interviewed - helping get the word out to local fishermen about issued affecting them.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Cranes with slings helping salvage and refloat boats.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. St. Bernard Parish was hit equally hard by Hurricane Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Fisheries refrigerator truck with front end in the water following Hurricane Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Ice plant that took 370 days to produce again post-Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Within a year of Katrina, 30% of boats were operational again.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Hazmat cleanup crews clean out refrigerator facilities following Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Re-starting the Venice Docks following Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. First post-Katrina shrimp processing.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Private boat recovery following Katrina.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Boat recovery with slings but no spreaders.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Private boat recovery efforts.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. A heavy ship lift was needed to help recover and refloat the boat s of Plaquemines Parish.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. All that remained of the Plaquemines Parish heavy lift.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Rusty Gaude and Washington State SeaGrant specialist confer about acquiring heavy lift.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. SeaGrant arranges with city of Valdez, Alaska to transport surplus heavy lift to Plaquemines Parish. Heavy lift shown here passing into Plaquemines Parish following one month trip from Valdez in the dead of winter.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Assembling the Valdez Travel Lift.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Valdez Travel Lift pre-assembly.

Image from FEMA/SeaGrant PowerPoint Presentation by Wayne and Nancy Weikel and Rusty Gaude. Dedication of the Valdez Travel Lift ceremony.