Seafood availability chart at bottom of story outlines what is available and when in SE waters.
If those tasty crustaceans smothered by grits in South Carolina restaurants are from Florida, the restaurant owner would be breaking the law by calling them “local” shrimp, under a change working its way through the Legislature.
The same goes for “local” grouper in the display case at the grocery store that’s really from Asia.
The new definition for local seafood would be added to the state’s food labeling regulations in a bill, H.3297, which has made it to the House floor. Even if the bill passes the House in the next two weeks, the Senate won’t consider it until 2014.
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