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Article: The best of Biloxi: Desporte & Sons' family roots are the ties that bind to Gulf community.(What's in Store)
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- Seafood Business
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- August 1, 2009
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Hurricanes, including the devastating Katrina in 2005, could not keep a 100-year-old Biloxi, Miss., seafood wholesaler, cafe and retailer down. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed casinos, hotels and restaurants along the Mississippi Gulf coast, residents of the Gulfport and Biloxi area kept Desporte & Sons Seafood Market & Deli in business.
"We couldn't do it without the local people. The local business and Keesler [Air Force base] help keep us going," says Sean Desporte, one of the owners in the fifth-generation family business that was founded in 1885.
Desporte believes the reason that locals keep coming back, beyond ...