[Sparta]

This along with the fact the ChiComs continue to flood the market with shrimp, no wonder why the Louisiana seafood industry is struggling.

[Sparta]

ping!!!

[Tailgunner Joe]

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[Carry_Okie]

This along with the fact the ChiComs continue to flood the market with shrimp, no wonder why the Louisiana seafood industry is struggling.

It surprises me that the industry still exists given that shrimp are so easily farmed. One would have to look at who is funding the "activist" NGOs to see if this is in fact a bone being thrown to corporate aquaculture.

[The Obstinate Insomniac]

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[bigfootbob]

This insidious agency, NMFS, along with the United States Forest Service needs to be abolished. They've destroyed fishing and logging here in the West. Guess they've taken their show Eastward. Maybe when they "touch" enough folks we'll be able to turn this around. Strength in numbers.

[trebb]

I live in Mississippi (transplant via military) and they instituted the TEDS (Turtle Exclusion Devices) some years ago. The price of shrimp has definitely gone up, which kept shrimpers in business, but what's really putting a damper on the business is the casinos which took up all the free beach and closed a few processing plants. Year-by-year, the shrimpers have a tougher time of it and we even buy shrimp from Florida and Louisiana to keep prices down. Another case of government hosing the public with rules and regulations that make someone feel good, but make no sense and end up costing everyone...

[kinghorse]

I like what SCA does. They buy out shrimpers and make structure out of the boats. Shrimpers are a blight on good fishing.

[Mensch]

I have lived on or near the ocean (Atlantic & Pacific) all my life. The histeria surrounding threatened seaturtles has always baffled me. From my own experience as a waterman, I can attest to the fact that seaturtles, at least green seaturtles (the ones I most often come in contact with) are amongst the most numerous organisms observable. As a matter of fact, I guarantee I can walk down the beach right now, and see at least one within 10 minutes. Personally I think they should be exploited for their meat which by the way, is damn tasty.

[Mensch]

"Our surveys show that there are quite a few turtles in (the Gulf)," Klemm said. "

Well in that case they aren't endangered, are they.

[2nd_Amendment_Defender]

Another made up endangered species by the environmental whackos. These guys just seem to hate industries and will go to any length to shut those down that they don't like.