Seafood Restaurants Try To Recover From Post-Spill Slowdown

For Corey Lineberry, the questions came almost immediately.

Only a few days after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill hit the news, the general manager of Katy’s Fish City Grill and his staff heard questions from customers about just how safe their seafood was.

“We have a lot of (customers) who work for the oil companies,” Lineberry said. “And they are familiar with the Gulf.

“The number one question was ‘is it safe?’”

Since the oil spill poured thousands of barrels into the Gulf earlier this year, those safety concerns have had a dramatic impact on seafood restaurants near and far.

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