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Interviewee	Collins, Nick
Interviewer	Takacs, Joselyn W.
Title	Oral Memoirs of Nick Collins
Interview details	Interviewed by Joselyn W. Takacs on June 11, 2015, in Golden Meadow, LA
Number of interviews	1
Interview Date(s)	2015
Resource Type	Interview
Format	PDF Audio
Genre	Oral histories;
Language	English
Description, transcript	In progress
Description, sound recordings	digital audio file; 1.47 hrs.
Collection	Special
Project	Polluted Purifiers
Summary	Nick Collins was an oyster farmer in Louisiana before, during, and after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History;
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX;
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

Interviewee	Collins, Nick
Interviewer	Takacs, Joselyn W.
Title	Nick Collins Interview -- Transcript
Interview details	Interviewed by Joselyn W. Takacs on June 11, 2015, in Golden Meadow, LA
Number of interviews	1
Interview Date(s)	2015
Resource Type	Interview
Format	PDF
Genre	Oral histories;
Language	English
Description, transcript	In progress
Collection	Special
Project	Polluted Purifiers
Summary	Nick Collins was an oyster farmer in Louisiana before, during, and after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010; Collins Oyster Company headquarters 00:00:00 ; state of business before Hurricane Katrina and the oil spill 00:01:06 ; his current oyster leases 00:02:57 ; background growing up in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, and being part of the oyster business 00:06:06 ; planting oysters and watching for oyster thievery 00:10:57 ; oyster season 00:15:11 ; selling to restaurants versus selling to factories 00:16:44 ; company production at the time of the interview compared to before the oil spill 00:19:01 ; Collins Oyster Company’s three-boat fleet 00:22:35 ; process of dredging for oysters 00:25:10 ; a day in the life of an oyster farmer 00:27:50 ; joys of being an oyster farmer 00:29:59 ; oyster shucking in the early morning 00:31:31 ; retention of oyster shuckers 00:33:55 ; his start as a full-time oyster farmer 00:40:02 ; his son’s experience on the oyster boat 00:43:39 ; state of his business immediately after the oil spill 00:46:01 ; his work with the Vessels of Opportunity program 00:49:32 ; eating local seafood after the oil spill 01:09:40 ; his company’s production in the five years prior to this interview 01:14:35 ; effect of coastal erosion on his business 01:18:59 ; changing population and industry in Golden Meadow 01:21:31 ; his outlook for the oyster industry in the Gulf of Mexico 01:25:14.
Sponsor	Baylor University Institute for Oral History;
Sponsor Location	Waco, TX;
Rights	http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights

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