McFarland Management is covering the waterfront with concepts offering several price points that carry the names of noted marine artists and emphasize sustainable seafood and environmental consciousness.


As more customers are questioning the source of restaurant seafood in the wake of this past summer’s BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, McFarland executives said their concepts are well-positioned both to assuage consumer concerns and to educate.


Restaurateur Jimmy Patronis has represented Florida’s House District 6 since 2006, putting him in a unique position when it comes to the state and federal response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The Patronis family opened the high-volume, 700-seat Capt. Anderson’s Restaurant & Waterfront Market in 1967 in Panama City, Fla., which is now feeling the effects of the oil catastrophe.



Gulf of Mexico seafood prices often peak with summertime demand. But chefs and restaurateurs across the nation are facing even substantially higher fish and shellfish costs as the catastrophic BP leak continues to spew oil into the Gulf.


As a result of the ever-
expanding toxic spill, the costs of shrimp, crab, finfish and oysters already have surged by as much as 25 percent above the norm. 


And, many believe, prices will climb even further before the damage has been contained.