CHARLESTON, S.C. — Experts at an international conference disagreed Friday on whether it's safe to eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill earlier this year.
The government says Gulf seafood is safe to eat. However, Ed Cake, president of Gulf Environmental Associates in Ocean Springs, Miss., told the International Conference on Shellfish Restoration, "We have a lot of concern about what is going on down there."
"They're doing the sniff and taste test," Cake said. "We as human beings no longer have the noses of bloodhounds. I will not eat any seafood coming from the central Gulf at this point."
After the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, some 170 million gallons of oil spewed from an undersea well. Large areas of the Gulf were closed to fishing for a time because of the spill.
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