re: BP's 25 Mile Limit from Coast for Claims

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Have you checked out importerd shrimp?

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Yes I have. That was an option that I didn't want to go to. But you cannot sell imported fresh shrimp. Fresh shrimp was a big part of our sales. Also, most imported shrimp are farm-raised and farm raised do not tend to boil well. They are usually hard to peel when boiled.

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Do you have a diverse menu, or is it only seafood?

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Being that I have a seafood market & deli, I don't think I could diversify my menu without changing my name somehow. All most 100% of our sales come from seafood with most of that being fresh seafood and then cooked seafood second. And being that we also wholesale on a small level (local shrimp, local oysters, and local crab), it took out our sales on the wholesale level.

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Food prices sky rocketed in 2008, what did you do then?

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I didn't have a restaurant in 2008 but I was working in the seafood wholesale industry. Seafood prices did not skyrocket then. It was some of the other stuff that skyrocketed which really did not affect us as much. Sales got harder though due to rising restaurant costs. My restaurant started in 2009.