Madeira Beach, Florida – It's an 11-day commercial fishing trip that cost $7,000 in expenses and brought in 4,000 pounds of grouper.
But for the long-line grouper fishermen at Madeira Beach Seafood, it adds up to "an 11-day waste of time", to use the words of one fisherman.
Since the oil spill, business at Madeira Beach Seafood is down 60 percent.
Business managers blame the government's virtual shutdown of commercial fishing in the Gulf in the day after the spill, which led some Madeira Beach Seafood customers to look elsewhere. Many switched to buying seafood from Mexico and Central America.
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