Posted on March 11, 2026
CAMERON PARISH, La. (KPLC) – A new permit was approved at the Cameron Parish Police Jury meeting this morning and would allow Venture Global CP2 to utilize mud spoils from dredging to create the No Name Bayou Marsh in the Cameron Prairie Wildlife Refuge.
Fishermen and oystermen addressed their concerns before the police jury about the quality of their oysters since the Venture Global dredge spill in August at the bottom of Big Lake.
“I went and caught me some oysters. I shucked them. I got up the next morning, and I fried some. I could smell something I couldn’t smell since COVID. I told my wife I said, ‘Smell this.’ She said ‘I’m not eating that,’” oysterman Phillip Dyson said.
“Your job is not to know how to move mud, how to stop mud, where mud goes, and that’s not our job either. I mean, if we hadn’t have reported that, it would still be coming out there,” oysterman Anthony Theriot said.
Police jury members say the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries used the same study on the impact on the oysters as Venture Global did.
