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WILD NEW JERSEY: The Star Ledger: N.J. seafood industry braces for impact of Gulf oil spill contamination

The Star Ledger: N.J. seafood industry braces for impact of Gulf oil spill contamination

Orlando Perez, left, of Atlantic Cape Fisheries dumps out a bag of oysters from their farm raised
oyster beds during low tide in the Delaware Bay as he harvests them for sale with
Antonio Rodriguez and Kenny Derosiers, right.
Photo Credit: Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger

Boxes stuffed with crab legs, lobster, sea bass and shrimp from around the world are stacked inside Carlos da Silva’s freezer. One by one, they’re loaded onto trucks and delivered to restaurants and supermarkets throughout the the tri-state area. But as da Silva was surveying his bustling Ocean Frost warehouse in Newark one day last week, he pointed to several boxes of shrimp and oysters from Texas and Louisiana. "People are expecting a shortage and they’re right — there’s not a lot," he said. With seemingly no end in site to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some oyster beds have been shut down and shrimping season has been canceled in parts of the region.