Pursuits
BP Spill Victims Face Economic Fallout Two Years Later
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Louisiana oysterman Terrance M. Shelley was struggling to keep up with demand by New Orleans restaurants before BP Plc’s Macondo well blew out in April 2010, crippling the processing plant he opened six months earlier.
“Demand was exploding” until then, said Shelley, 60, whose family has 18,000 acres of oyster reefs.