Tallahassee, Florida — Florida fishermen say the perception that Gulf seafood is tainted with oil is killing their business right now.
Bob Jones of the Southeastern Fisheries Association is poring over maps and satellite images of the Gulf of Mexico now that the federal government has expanded the area of water closed to fishing.
About 20 percent of the Gulf is shut off to commercial fishermen from the Louisiana Coast to the western Panhandle and stretching south.
The oil is now about 185 miles off the coast of St. Petersburg and 85 miles from Pensacola.
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