date:Apr 08, 2013
epends on a variety of often unpredictable factors, such as severe weather that keeps fishing fleets in port or a spotty catch in an overfished ocean.
This is not like ordering tomatoes or potatoes, Nunez says. Seafood is wild.
By 2:30 a.m., one of the key items on his handwritten list of orders - 400 pounds of striped bass - remains unfilled from among dozens of vendors.
I'm getting nervous, he says.
The day's hundreds of offerings - including crabs, clams, mussels, slimy squid, octopus and