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Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
The prime fishing season is during the Summer. [6] [4] The city of New Orleans itself was founded in 1718 and the Sound has served it for over 300 years. [5] However, fishing was banned across the Gulf Coast for a period of time after the 2010 oil spill, causing the industry to temporarily die out. Oil Spill Fishery Closure Map
The largest marsh restoration project in Louisiana's history is rebuilding nearly three-thousand acres of marsh in a St. Bernard Parish lake. Plans are on the books to bring the process to ...
Biloxi Wildlife Management Area also referred to as Biloxi WMA, is a 35,644-acre (14,425 ha) [1] privately owned tract of protected marsh land located in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF). The land is owned by Biloxi Marsh Lands Corporation, owning approximately 90,000 acres ...
State of Louisiana [24] Marsh Island Wildlife Refuge: Iberia Parish: 76,664 (now 71,000) LDWF [25] Queen Bess Island Wildlife Refuge Jefferson 37
Sabine is a 124,511-acre (504 km 2) sanctuary, the largest coastal marsh refuge on the Gulf Coast of the United States.It is home to more than 200 species of birds, including ducks, great egrets, geese, Neotropic cormorants, raptors, snowy egrets, wading birds, and shorebirds.
Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge established in 1996, is located in Terrebonne Parish, 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Houma, Louisiana. It is one of eight refuges of the Southeast Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge Complex (SELA). The 4,619-acre (18.69 km 2) [1] refuge is composed of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp.
Marsh Island is an uninhabited low-lying marshy island in Iberia Parish, south coastal Louisiana, lying between Vermilion Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.It is bordered on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and is separated from mainland Louisiana by East Cote Blanche Bay to its east, West Cote Blanche Bay to its north, Vermilion Bay to its northwest, and Southwest Pass to its west.