Senator Cassidy’s India Shrimp Tariff Act Throws a Lifeline to Desperate U.S. Shrimp Industry

October 3, 2023 Southern Shrimp Alliance

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) introduced two bills designed to address the Government of India’s rampant subsidization of food products, including rice, pulse crops, wheat, peanuts, and shrimp. Senator Cassidy’s legislation recognizes that, with this massive government support, India has flooded global markets and decimated food producers in the United States. 

Southern Shrimp Alliance Supports USDA Purchases of Seafood

September 28, 2023 Southern Shrimp Alliance

The Southern Shrimp Alliance sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and U.S. House Committee on Agriculture to encourage the inclusion of seafood under USDA programs.

Court Rules in Favor of NC Shrimpers and Commercial Fishermen

August 10, 2023 Southern Shrimp Alliance

In a unanimous decision on August 7, 2023, the Court affirmed a previous decision made by U.S. District Court Judge Louise Flanagan on September 17, 2021. The plaintiffs then appealed, with the oral arguments made before the court in the fall of 2022. 

Prices for Landed Shrimp Remained at Historic Lows in February

Last Thursday, the Fishery Monitoring Branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries’ Southeast Fisheries Science Center released preliminary shrimp landings data from the Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic for February 2023.

NOAA Preliminary Data Show Record Volumes of Shrimp Landed in Alabama, Large Harvests in Louisiana in 2022

December 5, 2022 Southern Shrimp Alliance

As with the agency’s reporting since July of last year, the numbers released by NOAA for landings in the Gulf in August include substantial revisions to the agency’s initial preliminary reporting of shrimp landings in previous years.