Re: Re: Re: Fishing in the coastal south -- was Cooking w/ Wine

[Guest guest]

This time of year it seems like it should be cheap and found everywhere here.  Haven't seen any catfish--frozen or fresh in the last two weeks I've been trying to find it.  Lots of cod and other types--swahi?  No crawfish tailmeat but last time I saw it the price was crazy high for the usual bag.  Haven't checked anything else. 

 

I'm sorry to hear all of it on the news and how it's affecting you guys.  You know  last time we went to Galveston, everything seemed 'baby' size anyway.  The oysters were tiny, the catfish seemed small--too young to be there ;-).  I'm not sure if it will take months, years or a hundred years for everything to be back to normal.  Then again, it's better not to speculate on it.

 

Debbie 41 cd

 

Debbie

 

I’m not Marilyn, but I live east of New Orleans in coastal Alabama.  The fishing and seafood industry in our area (and it is, or was, extensive) has shut down because of the oil impacting our bays, marshes, beaches.  Salt-water fishing, shrimping, etc. has been prohibited in most areas, except for a few research scientists.  Fresh-water fishing has also been impacted.  Some of the local seafood stores are still open, but they’re shipping in frozen or fresh from elsewhere.

 

Probably is the same in your area.  Our waterways haven’t been as badly impacted as southern-most Louisiana, but it is still bad enough to shut down our seafood and fishing activities.   We’re not sure when it may resume, since the oil will be coming ashore for months even after the well is capped.  We don’t know when the seafood that is caught, whenever that is allowed to resume, will test as safe from toxicities.  So it may be months.

 

I’ve gone back to buying frozen wild-caught fish from the Pacific or Atlantic.  No more locally-caught fish. [big sigh]

 

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

 

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Are you having problems finding crawfish, catfish, shrimp, etc.? Maybe it'sthe season but it's not *everywhere* like usual. I haven't found catfish at

all this week. Just wonder if they had a run on it or if it is because ofthe Gulf problems.Debbie 41 cd

[Guest guest]

At 10:31 AM 7/10/2010, you wrote:

The oysters were tiny, the

catfish seemed small--too young to be there ;-). I'm not sure if it

will take months, years or a hundred years for everything to be back to

normal. Then again, it's better not to speculate on

it.

The oysters I found for my Dad's birthday were quite small, and

expensive.

At least they MAY have stopped the gushing now.... (saying prayers for

success, and for the ecology)

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Marilyn

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