BP spill hits home in Catskills

The Daily Freeman talks to a Phoenicia-based fishing tackle company which has lost big time because of the oil spill:

Owner Scott Greenberg said the full impact on his business, from sales to fishing in the five-state Gulf Coast region, won’t been known for a full year, but he has already calculated that accounts worth between $3,000 and $30,000 each were affected when the oil giant’s rig began spewing oil thousands of feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico from miles off shore.

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