Now that Barry is behind us, St. Bernard is looking to make sure it's fishermen are taken care of, and it's been a long few months for those who make their living off of the seafood industry.
Parish President Guy McInnis says without missing a beat, they are heading to Washington today for a series of meetings to talk about the Bonnet Carre spillway and the fishing industry.
"You know our community with these storms, we learn to deal with this but our fishing community, but they've been getting bounced around and hit all over, I'm worried about losing some of them," McInnis said.
McInnis says they are frustrated.
"This is generations and culture, there is not a whole lot of people that want to get into that business, so once you lose a family, you lose a lot of that economic engine that is St. Bernard Parish," he added.
"And now the storm has most likely delayed the closing of the Spillway for about a week or two," according to McInnis.
He said he'd like to see some dredging of the river done to help get that water out to the Gulf.
"We are working off of a 1928 engineering design to flow this river from 31 states and to get it down here and save the city," McInnis said. " I just think that it needs to be reevaluated."
He'd also like to get some money down in the Parish to help the fishermen as he holds discussions with the Department of Commerce.