Another 100 were later taken by boat to Port Fourchon where they were checked by doctors.
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Globs of wet, sticky brown oil stretched Friday morning along Fourchon Beach, one of the parts of the Louisiana Gulf coast heaviest hit by the spill so far.
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"We're kind of the poster child for the infrastructure component of what's at stake in the coastal land loss issue, " Ted Falgout, director of Port Fourchon, told the Louisiana Explorer in 2003.