11.13.2007 8:00 AM
Seafood Latest Victim Of San Francisco Bay Oil Spill
As reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, last week’s oil spill in the bay of San Francisco is now having a huge impact on the seafood industry.
Not only are the state’s largest oyster crop growers looking at millions of dollars in losses but the spill will most likely affect the bay’s only commercially fished species -- herring, that spawn at this time of the year. The spill will also affect the region’s commercially caught crab.
Commercial fishing season for herring and crab in the Bay Area typically begins in mid-November but local fishermen voted to refrain from fishing until they can guarantee that no tainted products find their way into restaurants or onto store shelves.
The spill might be even more far reaching as it could also threaten steelhead and Chinook salmon that swim through the bay to spawning grounds located in both the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers during the fall.
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