It is fact that the fallout from the BP oil spill continues to ripple through the Gulf economy. This time it has got P&J Oyster Co. in New Orleans, the oldest continuously operating oyster processor in America. The processor has no oysters to process due to oil spill in the Gulf. Oysterman Mitch Jurisich first spotted oil earlier this week in Bayou La Chute, which he believes is the end of the road..
Al Sunseri, president of P&J Oysters in New Orleans, had to stop shucking oysters this week. All of the oystermen who sold to him have been shut down because of the oil spill. He told that this is the last of their areas that they had open from their family to harvest oysters. He also told that they were fortunate enough to have one little slice of pie left that they were still farming from, and that slice of pie now is gone.
The other six or seven oystermen P&J normally buys from had already been shut down by the spill. Sunseri tells his contact at one of the grocery stores he supplies that it was the last day his company will be shucking oysters.
