Costs of Gulf oil spill hurting Marylanders already

I'm not sure how many Marylanders realize that a lot of the seafood they buy at crab shacks and restaurants comes from the south, but they're going to be learning something about where their food comes from this weekend and on into the future as prices climb for crabs, shrimp, and oysters. New scarcity makes food expensive, and even the successful growth of the Chesapeake crab industry fostered by the short-term bans isn't going to open things up wide enough to limit our losses. Somehow we tend to remember things that affect our wallets- hopefully some people will take the next step and remember the importance of markets as well as of the environment!