Enjoy your boiled crawfish now. With the oil spill in the Gulf Coast spreading and the ecological damage still unfolding, there might not be any later.
We're worried," said Darrell Breaux, owner of Bro's Cajun Cuisine on Charlotte Avenue and a native of Lafayette, La.
Gulf Coast seafood — oysters, shrimp, crab and redfish — may be in short supply at many restaurants, and prices are already going up, although other regions of the coast and farm-raised seafood could partially fill the gap. Overseas companies are also a supplier of much of what is served in Nashville's restaurants.
On Friday morning, Breaux had 600 pounds of crawfish delivered for a Friday night boil, but most of that was farm-raised crawfish. Later in the year, supplies from southwest Louisiana's marshlands may be in doubt. "We don't know if it will come in this year," Breaux said. "It's too early to say."
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