Menhaden: Most Important Fish in the Bay Page #9

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and a variety of infections."

Do you want a copy

of this report?

Oh, yeah.

Funny enough, I would love to

see a copy of that report.

Here we are, baby.

So let me get this straight.

Two divers are found

with a bunch of holes in them

and all that we know is that

they're mysteriously being eaten

by parasites and infections.

That's right.

Nobody knows what

happened and it takes 16 days

to get this information to us?

Listen, we set

up an incident center

without cause and we're

in deep doo-doo here.

Really? Well, I've got

a town full of dead bodies.

A small town.

I think we need to

keep this whole thing

in perspective here.

What kind of perspective

are you talking about?

Help me! Help me!

Get off of me!

Get off of me!

Listen, it's not that easy to

pull the trigger on something like this.

We...

we blow up a nonissue and shut

down the entire Chesapeake Bay...

I mean, we're talking about beaches,

restaurants, vacation fishing.

The public panics if word gets out

we're setting up an incident center

about a spreading disease

or for a spreading disease.

You don't just shut down the

Eastern Seaboard without approval

from a higher authority.

Great, I understand. Thank you

very much, Officer Slattery.

That's it?

Okay.

Thanks.

Um, then at about 5:30,

they came in the hazmat suits,

and the National Guard came,

and then they quarantined

the town for another three days

and that was when they

confiscated

every single camera

they could find.

You know, there were

those who survived,

and for some reason,

they never became sick.

Uh, the town as a whole

reached a financial agreement

with the government.

I don't know how much

money changed hands,

but I do know that silence

was part of the agreement.

I tried to reach out

to people like Stephanie,

but she didn't want to

participate in this film.

Oh, and by the way.

The official line

from the government

was that the outbreak

was due to

unseasonably high

water temperatures.

This is Donna Thompson...

signing off.

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