Posted on 11/09/2015 6:48:23 PM PST by artichokegrower
Worrying about bills and plummeting shrimp prices, Dwayne Harrison stopped to apply for a mowing job one morning recently before dropping his nets in the Houston Ship Channel.
The 65-cents-a-pound he was getting last week for small, head-on wild shrimp is one-third the price of a year ago and less than his catch brought in 1998, the year he bought his 50-foot vessel, Angel Lady.
Harrison, 51, is among Gulf shrimpers who say they're leaving the business or are barely afloat, and many blame imports, which make up more than 90 percent of the shrimp market in the United States. Last year, imports rose by 143 million pounds and are up another 2 percent in 2015.
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I abhor picking up a fish package that says China.
It will prevent you. What it will do is hide the source by making all kinds of labeling games legal. If a Vietnamese farm by a sewage plant is owned by an American bank, it was be “Product of the USA”.
The SOBs have a million games. It’s hard to find good American seafood. I agree with you though.
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I love your food-related posts. Near and dear to my heart. :)
Yes, hold out for the Vietnamese.
I have no interest in Corexit shrimp.
The crappy fish can be labeled from any country in the China and south basin. Thailand, Vietnam, etc. They will send stuff cross borders to change the source labeling.
I wish I knew a reliable way to source seafood for home consumption. Ideas?
Why don’t we get fish from Canada? We went there every year and brought back awesome walleye.
One of my personal blessings is that I cannot stand seafood.
I don’t have much problem getting US caught seafood. Much of it I buy from the place in Alaska I use to process my fish when up there. Elsewise I’m real careful. I also eat a lot of American farm raised catfish. It’s tough though, when eating out.
I can’t find shrimp for under $10.00 per lb anywhere
I only buy wild gulf shrimp. No farmed crap from Asia.. I’ll pay more for the real stuff.
Yes, I refuse to buy any food product from China. However, today my husband came home with two boxes of smoked oysters (Polar brand) for me. I opened and ate a can without reading the box. I told my husband the box was false advertising. The picture on the box showed a tin with about 20 oysters and one red chili. The text on the box said only oysters in cottonseed oil. What was in the tin was 5 oysters and some carrots and onions. It was at that point I realized that these were likely from China. I went back to the box, and indeed they were. But not only that - it had a warning that the oysters may contain LEAD and CADMIUM!!! I tossed the second box out.
I live on the Gulf Coast. C’mon down and we’ll go out and catch our own shrimp, although I’d really rather have crab gumbo. (Mouth is now watering just thinking about my grandmother’s crab gumbo. See what you started?!)
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