Oysters may help you look better (tighter skin), see better (improved eyesight) and love better (elevated libido), but you should expect to pay more for the magical mollusks in coming months. If you can find them at all.
Blame it on BP.
About 70 percent of oysters eaten in the U.S. are fished out of the marshes, bayous and bays along the Gulf Coast – primarily in Louisiana.
But after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in April, state and federal officials closed thousands of miles of tidal coastline.
The results are now washing ashore in Dallas and around the nation.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: The Dallas Morning News.