This year’s white shrimp harvest in the waters off Louisiana’s southeastern coast is significantly lower than in the past, forcing some people in the industry to look elsewhere for product and scale back operations while others blame the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
“I am talking to the guys, I am talking to the docks, and they are telling me that they are 80 percent off,” said Clint Guidry, president of the Louisiana Shrimp Association. “We should have had a good year this year.”
Carol Terrebonne, who runs the Seafood Shed, a seafood wholesaler in Golden Meadow, agreed.
“Usually at this time of the year, we are loading trailer loads,” Terrebonne said. “It’s just not happening.”
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