I've been going to the local fish markets in Kemah for the last month every Saturday. Fish is plentiful and cheap. Shrimp prices are the lowest I've seen in a very long time. Got some extra jumbo shrimp for $4.00/lb!

If you can, please help us out - buy Gulf seafood. Ask where it came from. If it is from Texas waters, please buy.

These folks are just now recovering from Hurricane Ike. Thanks!

FREEPORT — The grouper hits the dock with a "thwap" and a splatter of slime. Its eyes bulge from its head like giant marbles.

Whatever those eyes may have seen when the 50-pound fish was alive, it wasn't oil. Mark Friudenberg wants to make that clear.

"Not to take what's happened in the northern Gulf lightly, but the Texas Gulf is unaffected," said Friudenberg, who owns Captain Mark's Seafood Market just up the street from this dock where a crew is unloading grouper and red snapper from the Delphin II. "People think all the Gulf seafood's contaminated."

That perception has driven his sales down by as much as 30 percent since BP's Macondo well blew out on April 20, spewing oil into the northern Gulf of Mexico and tainting the coastline from Louisiana to Florida. The slick that remains from the now-capped well is more than 200 miles from here, but customers are buying less of Captain Mark's grouper, red snapper, amberjack, shrimp and other Gulf mainstays just the same.

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