An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is many miles away from the North Carolina coast but not far from the minds of fishermen and seafood businesses waiting to see when the undersea leak will be contained and what impacts may be left behind.
Tony Chow, owner of Tony’s Seafood & Oyster Bar in Jacksonville, said Friday that he hasn’t had a problem with seafood availability to date but he’s seen prices for shrimp and oysters in particular increase 5 to 10 percent in the days since the spill.
“You still can get it, but prices are getting higher and higher,” Chow said.
Libby Eaton, owner of Bistro-by-the-Sea in Morehead City, said the impacts of the spill are still unclear but the anticipation of problems is having an effect of its own. The Gulf region is a prime producer of domestic seafood; and people are stocking up on all the shrimp, oysters, and other seafood favorites they can get.
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