But overall in Louisiana, numbers were about the same
(NEWSER) - The seafood stats are in for the Gulf's 2011 harvest, and though the finger-pointing (at BP and the oil spill, of course) has begun, the numbers paint a complicated picture. Last year was the first full year of fishing since the spill, and some areas definitely saw a depressed catch: In the Barataria estuary, one of the areas hardest hit by oil, the fall season was off by around 7 million pounds of shrimp and about 2.7 million pounds of blue crab. And many fishermen say BP is to blame. "I'm afraid that oil spill has ruined us," one shrimp dock owner tells the AP. More»
