Oyster experts are reporting that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a diver down after a lost cage last week, they found the bottom of the Gulf area where they were working covered with a thick layer of brown "chocolate" ooze.
All the oysters in the cages were dead.
"How can we possibility clean it up from bottom?" One expert asked.
In the 55 days since the BP oil spill began off the coast of Louisiana, anxiety about what might happen to Gulf seafood is being replaced by acceptance of a grim reality.
The 134-year-old P&J Oyster Company, supplier to some of the best known New Orleans French Quarter restaurants, has stopped shucking oysters and laid off its workers who made up to $24 an hour.
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