Changes to the Louisiana Wild Seafood Certification Program aimed at boosting participation in the program is drawing support from The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Under the marketing initiative, local seafood can be easily identified by the labeling but some found the program's requirements to be too strict to follow.
For a product to be labeled authentic Louisiana seafood, it had to be landed, processed and packaged in Louisiana. The changes will loosen the requirements to allow all Gulf seafood as long as it fills two of the other three requirements.
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