Gulf Coast Seafood Safety Concerns

Lunch time and at Desoto's Seafood Kitchen and they are frying, broiling and feeding a restaurant full of hungry folks.
"I eat broiled flounder almost everyday."
Lawrence and Susan Jones come every winter from Illinois.

It's the seafood and the hospitality that draw them here. "I know they wouldn't sell anything that was harmful," says Susan.

Rosemary Steele owns the place. She has battled the seafood safety issue since oil started rolling on shore.

"I think there is a lot of misinformation and a lot of rumors going around without actual factual information. We've been very careful since the oil spill about what we've been bringing in."

Steele admits after the oil spill she was worried about seafood safety but as the months have gone by so have those concerns.

"We were getting questions almost every couple of customers when it first happened and a large drop off in business now we've started those questions are not being asked that much anymore," says Steele.

For most customers like Larry Beno from Minnesota, there are no worries. "I assume that our government would say its either good or bad it has to be inspected somehow."

"We're doing our best to make sure that they're safe and we're safe too we live here and we eat it too," says Steele.

That is the message that Steele wants the rest of the country to hear.

Fewer than half of those surveyed in the Louisiana study gave positive ratings for the the amount and credibility of the information they are receiving about the spill. And despite their concerns, heavy seafood users didn't know where more than 8 of every 10 of their seafood meals came from according to the Louisiana study.