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Apalachicola's oysters number among the best. With just the right mix of fresh water from the Apalachicola River mingling with salt water from the Gulf of Mexico, these oysters are large, juicy, sweet, but slightly salty. The Gulf's Oysters – featuring Louisiana and Apalachicola's – make up more than half of the U.S. oyster harvest.

Gulf oil however accounts for almost a third of crude produced in the U.S. It's oil versus oysters.

Creeping Slick

Several months into BP's oil spill, relief wells are in the works, but slick continues to spread across the Gulf, more than a third of which is closed to fishing (see NOAA, "Deepwater Horizon/BP Oil Spill: Federal Fisheries Closure and Other Information").

Oil sheen has been sighted off Panama City's beaches. Tarballs roll in at Destin. To the east, Port St. Joe and its barrier islands jut out into the Gulf. Tucked behind the islands is Apalachicola Bay. Florida coastline east of Panama City, including Apalachicola Bay, remains open.

While some crude naturally seeps out at the Gulf floor, the MIssissippi Canyon leak seeps much faster. And detergents released by BP to disperse the oil, some themselves toxic, insure that oil, conveyed by the Loop Current, will spread to every cranny of the Gulf.

Work in Cleanup?

Many fishermen have temporarily abandoned fishing for highly-paid cleanup jobs. More than 1300 Franklin and Wakulla County commercial and recreational fishermen attended the one-night "Vessels of Opportunity" class offered by Wakulla County's Division of Emergency Management May 24th, seeking to be paid to use their boats in BP's clean up.

L. Scott Jackson / Premier Safety Management taught classes for non-boat-owners – where students learned how to handle washed up tarballs – at UF's Wakulla County Agricultural Extension Office. Jackson, whose home is the Louisiana delta off the Gulf of Mexico, was quick to introduce himself as having nothing to do with BP. The classes – with 40 students each – were offered twice daily for two weeks, and then, because of popularity, an additional third week.

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