BP oil spill: Clean-up efforts along the Gulf coast

The oil-affected shoreline in the northern reaches of Louisiana's Barataria bay is ringed by booms and work boats Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk Work crews use booms and vacuums to clean marshland affected by oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill near Bay Jimmy, near Myrtle Grove, Louisiana Photograph: Lee Celano/Reuters Photograph: Lee Celano/guardian.co.uk Marsh grasses covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are seen in Bay Jimmy Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk Oil clouds the surface of Barataria Bay near Port Sulpher, Louisiana Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk Thick crude oil from the spill. Plaquemines parish officials are using portable vacuums to slowly collect the oil at their own expense Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk Allen Sreiy stands next to oily booms on his shrimp boat as he helps with clean-up operations Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk Workers vacuum oil along the northern shores of Barataria bay Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk Plaquemines Parish employee James McGee uses a portable vacuum to suck up thick crude oil in the Bay Jimmy marsh section of Barataria bay Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk Barges with vacuum trucks are seen along the oil damaged shores in the Northern reaches of Barataria bay Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk A shrimp lies dead after becoming stuck in a pool of oil in Bay Jimmy Photograph: Sean Gardner/REUTERS Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk US Fish & Wildlife Service information board at their temporary headquarters at Dennis Pass in the Mississippi delta near Venice, Louisiana Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/EPA Photograph: Erik S. Lesser/guardian.co.uk Plaquemines Parish coastal zone management director P.J. Hahn catches an oiled sandwich tern. Biologists with the US Fish and Wildlife Service are using locals to help them find birds oiled by the BP oil spill Photograph: Matthew Hinton/AP Photograph: Matthew Hinton/guardian.co.uk An oil-stained sandwich tern Photograph: Sean Gardner/Getty Images Photograph: Sean Gardner/guardian.co.uk Workers try to catch a brown pelican covered in oil in Rock Canal near Venice, Louisiana Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photograph: Charlie Neibergall/guardian.co.uk A deep sea trawler is anchored while working as an absorbent boom supply boat in Barataria bay Photograph: Bevil Knapp/EPA Photograph: Bevil Knapp/guardian.co.uk Out of work fishermen sign up for Vessels of Opportunity - a scheme designed to give local boat operators an opportunity to assist with clean-up activities Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk Phillip Boudreaux fishes for catfish along a bayou in Lafourche, Louisiana. Commercial fishing, including areas in Lafourche, has been banned in much of the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Photograph: Spencer Platt/guardian.co.uk Embattled chief executive Tony Hayward stepped aside yesterday as US BP executive Bob Dudley was appointed the head of a new unit to manage the response and clean-up operation. Earlier in the week, protesters disrupted a speech by the company's chief of staff at a major oil conference as Hayward cancelled what would have been his first public appearance in the UK since the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Photograph: Alex Wong/guardian.co.uk A skimming crews scoops oil out of the water not far off the coast of Perdido key, Florida Photograph: Dan Anderson/EPA Photograph: Dan Anderson/guardian.co.uk In this satellite image, oil spreading north-east from the leaking Deepwater Horizon well is seen from Nasa's Terra satellite. The oil appears as a maze of silvery-grey ribbons in the Gulf of Mexico. Click here for more satellite images of the spill Photograph: NASA/Getty Images Photograph: NASA/guardian.co.uk