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

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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's

the 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 of

the Gulf problems.

Debbie 41 cd