NEW ORLEANS — For the first time in its 100-year-plus history, one of New Orleans' biggest oyster dealers has resorted to importing oysters to subsidize demand for the shellfish delicacy, which in recent years, dealers say, has become hard to harvest in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Al Sunseri, co-owner of P&J Oyster Company in the French Quarter and a member of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force, said Tuesday that his company has shucked and sold fresh Louisiana oysters for more than 130 years. In his 35 years with the company, he said he's never seen anything like today's market.
"We're shucking a tenth of the oysters that we used to shuck," Sunseri said. "It's not even in the ballpark, and there are months that go by where we don't have any product to shuck."
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