The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is pushing up prices for shrimp and oysters from those waters but having limited impact on the larger U.S. seafood industry.
Here's why: The U.S. imports about 83% of its seafood and just 2% of domestic supplies come from the Gulf.
That's no comfort for Gulf fisheries, of course, which have been devastated by the spill that has gone on for two months now.
