Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 29, 2010

If Zonker can sell frozen fish to his customers this way, he would be a great spokesman for BP.

The best seafood comes from colder water anyway.

There are still Gulf fishing grounds open, and fresh seafood is still available here in Texas. Quick frozen wild caught seafood is a very viable alternative, although defrosting at the table would make for a long long meal.

Would you rather have seafood frozen within hours of being caught, Or “Fresh” seafood that’s been at refrigerator temps for several days as the boat came in and the fish was shipped to your store/restaurant?

I’ll have a Mad Cow Burger with cheese to be safe…make it a quadruple!

I will take frozen any day. Love frozen vegetables, as cheap as the real thing and not overcooked like canned stuff. As for sea-food, I use imitation crabmeat in my quiches and it still tastes good.

The oyster and scallop fishery is open in Florida panhandle waters but the fisherman are making more money with less work helping BP with the spill. Next time you notice seafood prices rising, you’ll know the cause.

Uh, thank, but I’ll have the tossed salad… and maybe the ALASKAN salmon plate…

Hey, the gulf isn’t the only place that has seafood, you know! We also have the east coast, from Miami to Maine!

True, Josh, at least for now….

Yes, there is other seafood, but the devastation of the Louisiana coast really does reduce the amount of shrimp and oysters coming in. Cleaning up the oil is not less work, and I thank the fishermen who are helping with the cleanup work, as well as all of the college students and various others who are volunteering. Thank God this particular hurricane is going to miss us, but it isn’t over yet.

I think I’ll have the fresh Maine lobster, and Alaska salmon for the next few years. But this is very tragic for those making their living along the gulf coast.

@heeyuk “I’ll have a Mad Cow Burger with cheese to be safe…make it a quadruple!”

Is that “quadruple” as in bypass?

Maryland softshelled crab for me.

I wonder if the Florida stone crabs will appreciate not having their claws ripped off for a few years.

“Fresh? but there is ice in this turkey?” Yes Lady, we drop them to 28 degrees after slaughter.” “But 32 is frozen” “Not according to the USDA. Look Lady, if we kept them at 34, can you spell salmonella?” “But I want a fresh bird for Thanksgiving.” “Do you expect us to slaughter and process 11,000 birds Tuesday night?” “Yes, I ordered a fresh bird, not killed last week.” “Here’s a knife. Birds are in that field. Good luck.”

Do people honestly believe meat and fish are fresh.?Hell, if your fishing, don’t you ice your catch? Please don’t bring any trout to my house you caught at 6 AM

Grimma, many of the blue crabs being sold in Maryland for the last 10 years or so actually came from Louisiana. The Chesapeake Bay is starting to recover as of late, and more of them are from Maryland lately though.

some pretty callous and unthinking comments about the devastation to the seafood industry today. ‘oh well, we can get our seafood from somewhere else.’ it doesn’t really work that way, especially for shrimp; most fishing grounds outside of the Gulf for cod, tuna and the like are being fished to the point of extinction already.

i was reading that it’s possible that if the Deepwater Horizon oil enters the Gulf Stream the oil might eventually flow up the East Coast.

Eighty per cent of the seafood sold in supermarket chains comes from outside the U.S., either China or Central America. The USDA inspects about one per cent of that.

billdi, the topic today is the effect of the spill on consumers and the market. The reality is that the market will try to accomodate the disaster, and there are other sources. Even if there are not, the world will not starve for lack of shrimp scampi.

Time to feel sorry for the folks affected by this spill is over. Now it’s time to do something about it. Have we started yet? I’m still thinking there’s a lot more we can do (as has been done in other parts of the world with similar spills) that we haven’t seriously considered yet.

How long before we just live on reconstituted protein and hydroponic greenhouse vegetables?

Orgelspieler, better get the recipe for soylent green biscuits ready. I can just see that replace the “powdered milk biscuits” jingle on “A Prarie Home Companion”!

(made with Norwegian bachelor farmers!)

I wish better humor could be mined from this ecological disaster. It’s so bad I honestly think it’ll be a generation before this mess can be cleaned up. My prayers to those in the gulf affected by this catastrophe. The terrorists who want to hit us again couldn’t have done a better job than what BP allowed to happen

Potrzebie said, about 4 hours ago

“Orgelspieler, better get the recipe for soylent green biscuits ready.”

We just watched “Soylent Green” the other day (first watched it in 1972). “Soylent Green is people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!