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BP's Fund Czar: Gulf OK by 2012, Except for Oysters
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- With the exception of oysters, the Gulf of Mexico will recover by the end of 2012, according to an evaluation of environmental and economic conditions made by the administrator of BP's $20 billion compensation fund. But oysters could take six to 10 years to recover to pre-spill levels. The Gulf Coast produces two-thirds of the nation's oyster harvest. That assessment will be used by Kenneth Feinberg, the fund's administrator, to determine how much to pay to settle final claims by fishermen, shrimpers, motel owners and other businesses affected by the spill. Spill victims ...
Gulf Oysters Could Take 2 Years to Recover
By Dave Thier - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- The blank spot where oysters used to be on a few menus at New Orleans restaurants serves as a stark reminder of the long recovery process the gulf seafood industry faces, even after BP permanently capped the leaking well that so seriously damaged the business. For oysters, in particular, returning to normal may take two years or more. Alfred P. Sunseri runs P&J Oyster Co., which at 134 years old is the oldest oyster business in the United States. The company shucked its last batch of oysters on June 10. Since then it has been trying to scrape by with what fishermen have been ...
No Stale Popcorn: Chicago Festival Celebrates Film Food
By David Moye - AOL News
(Sept. 21) -- Seeing a movie on the big screen can be a feast for the eyes, but most of the food sold at the theaters is an attack on the stomach, thanks to the stale popcorn, soggy nachos and watered-down Sierra Mist that are a normal part of the film food experience. However, movie masticators in Chicago will get a taste of something better on Friday and Saturday when the first-ever Chicago Film Food Festival takes place at the MCA Warehouse. Courtesy Kacy Jahanbini George Motz is one of the creators of the Chicago Food Film Festival. Attendees watch documentaries about food while the ...
First Katrina, Then BP: Life in the Gulf's Unluckiest Town
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsCHALMETTE, La. (Aug. 27) -- The sleek Bell helicopter, one of the perks BP is making available to cranky officials whose coastlines it oiled, lifts off from the lawn in front of the St. Bernard Parish government complex, tilts toward the Gulf of Mexico and flies straight into the thunderheads of Tropical Depression 5. The gathering storm has already forced a pullback of the flotilla out at the Deepwater Horizon drill site and will soon roll over New Orleans, dumping enough rain to flood the streets. We are headed down parish to Hopedale, if we can thread our way through. There, near a sleepy ...
Oil Spill Fallout: Oyster Industry Takes Hit as Gulf Company Shuts Doors
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyLouisiana's oyster industry took another major hit as the AmeriPure Processing Co. announced a temporary halt in operations, and the layoff of forty employees. The company, in Franklin, Louisiana, has a large payroll because it uses an elaborate process of cooling and heating to kill several strains of the dangerous Vibrio bacteria. Managing Partner Patrick Fahey explained Friday that his company's ability to get "oysters has been severely limited as a result of the spill. This is due to the combination of the precautionary closing of some oyster harvest-areas, and, more to the point, the ...
FDA Evaluating Oysters to Gauge Gulf Oil Spill Food Safety
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyThe Food and Drug Administration is stepping up efforts to keep contaminated fish, oysters and other seafood off grocery store shelves, as the gulf oil spill continues to spread through fishing hot spots and oyster beds. Already, the spill has taken a serious toll on some of the region's food suppliers. As AOL News reported last week, the nation's oldest oyster shucking house, in New Orleans' French Quarter, has closed its doors. "This is our last day," owner Al Sunseri told WRNO News. "I don't have any prospects to get any oysters -- they closed one of the main areas where we get our ...
Spill Shuts Down Nation's Oldest Oyster Shuckers
By Dave Thier - AOL News(June 10) -- This morning, the oyster shuckers at the country's oldest oyster house shucked what could well be their last batch. P&J Oyster Company on North Rampart Street in New Orleans' French Quarter has been a city staple for 134 years -- it was P&J bivalves that were used in the first oysters Rockefeller. Now, after the oyster house has weathered two world wars, the Great Depression and Hurricane Katrina, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have dealt the business a killing blow. While half of Louisiana's oyster beds are free from contamination and open to harvesting -- indeed, despite ...
600-Plus Species at Risk From Deadly Gulf Oil Spill
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 29) -- With oil from a destroyed rig gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at an estimated rate of 210,000 gallons per day, the effects on wildlife will almost certainly be profound. The April 20 explosion of a BP rig killed 11 people and eventually led to the platform's sinking about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. But now the ensuing spill threatens 445 species of fish, 45 species of mammals, 32 species of amphibians and reptiles, and 134 species of birds, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries told AOL News. And when the massive oil slick makes landfall in Louisiana on ...
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