Ashley Hall is an SFA member and contributer to Gravy, the SFA’s foodletter. She is traveling along the Gulf Coast to capture stories relating to the oil spill as a traveling Gravy correspondent. We’ll be posting relevant entries here, but visit the blog she’s set up for the project, Third Coast Byways, for more
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GRAVY GULF EDITION: UPDATES
July 7, 2010
A DISPATCH FROM ASHLEY HALL TUESDAY, JULY 6, 2010 This morning I pulled together a handful of stories that I find relevant. I’ll be following up with some folks in Mississippi and Alabama this morning, and hope to have updates posted later today. It looks like the fishing closures haven’t changed at all since I left the Gulf. http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/ But the New Orleans Times-Picayune is reporting that the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has closed parts of Lake Pontchartrain to fishing because tar balls have made it up there. Read more here. Tarballs have also made it…



