Via WWNO
WWNO, the local public-radio affiliate, and the Southern Food and Beverage Museum in Central City will host and moderate a discussion next week of the impact of the BP oil spill on Louisiana seafood that still remains five years later.
It will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, at the museum at 1504 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. It is free and open to the public.
Laine Kaplan-Levenson, WWNO coastal desk producer, and Eve Troeh, news director, will moderate the discussion about the state of Gulf seafood with people from different aspects of the industry.
The panelists will include: Twyla Harrington Cheatwood, fisheries agent for the National Wildlife Federation; Tony Goutierrez, commercial fisherman; Sal Sunseri, co-owner of P+J Oyster Company and member of the Louisiana Seafood and Marketing Board; and Michael Ketchum, director for national retail sales at the New Orleans Fish House, a restaurant supplier.
