Does the oil spill put seafood restaurants at risk?

Restaurant owners in Louisiana are concerned about seafood ever since the oil spill. Seafood is very popular there, they're worried about the quality, availability, and price of the food now that the oil spill occurred. Professionals say it's too early to determine what harm the oil spill has done, but that hasn't kept people from worrying about it. Depending on the season, about 40% of our country's seafood sold in restaurants are from the Gulf Coast area. That's why there's restaurants even from other places of the United States concerned about the seafood there. It will be a difficult time for Louisiana to lose the income they make from seafood with the recession. Each year they make about $2.4 billion dollars from seafood, and summer is the prime money-making time with it. No restaurants have been affected directly from the spill yet, but this concern will definitely need to be watched.

I've been hearing about the oil spill time and time again this week, but I never considered the affect it will have on the economy. I have mostly heard about the dangerous ecological threats that are spreading. An oil spill anywhere is a terrible thing, but one of this capacity is absolutely horrendous. Our whole country depends on the seafood there. Restaurants across the country may order their seafood from that area. This could cause declines in many different places. Since we're in a recession, we need to recognize this and figure out a solution, and fast. We need to think of the chain effect this spill will have not only one nature, but also on everyone.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/05/05/oil.spill.seafood.restaurants/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29