Richard Shelton reaches for his take out order of cooked catfish and sole from the New Orleans Fish Market on Vernon Ave. in South Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / LAT)
Destinnee Stewart, 6, eyes the catfish for sale inside the New Orleans Fish Market on Vernon Ave. in South Los Angeles. (Mel Melcon / LAT)
Sadiq Johnson, an employee at the New Orleans Fish Market on Vernon Ave. in South Los Angeles, holds up a live crawfish, flown in from the gulf in Louisiana. (Mel Melcon / LAT)
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Junior Martinez, an employee at the New Orleans Fish Market on Vernon Ave. in South Los Angeles, adds spices into a vat of boiling water before cooking up a batch of crawfish flown in from the gulf in Louisiana. (Mel Melcon / LAT)
Anthony Cosme, owner of the New Orleans Fish Market on Vernon Ave. in South Los Angeles, takes a customer’s order. (Mel Melcon / LAT)