Are prices for shrimp and other seafood creeping higher in your favorite Twin Cities markets?
If so, you can assign part of the blame to the deadly sludge spreading across the Gulf of Mexico as a result of BP's oil spill.
You also should brace for prices to climb higher as the oil slick swells and contaminates more coastal waters.
"We've been talking with our big wholesaler out East, and they're worried," said Chris Nelson of Coastal Seafoods in Minneapolis. Coastal supplies more than 100 restaurants in the Upper Midwest and also sells seafood in two retail stores.
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