Gulf White Shrimp Harvest Terrible; Shrimpers Reporting Catches Off By Up To 80%

[hatrack]

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.”

The white shrimp season opened Aug. 22, said Marty Bourgeois, a biologist with the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The white shrimp season usually lasts until December or early January and is the longer of the state’s two shrimp seasons with the spring season focused on brown shrimp, Bourgeois said.

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http://theadvocate.com/news/996014-123/harvesters-dispirited-by-white-shrimp.html

[newfie11]

1. just the beginning. the gulf is dying. n/t

[Denninmi]

2. The good news is,

the ones they are bringing in are pre-oiled, no need for canola, just pop them in a pan, and they start to fry in their natural coating of BP Gulf Crude.

Yummy.

[4_TN_TITANS]

3. I truly feel sorry for the Gulf residents

But I relegated Gulf seafood to the same status I have for anything edible from China. Not going to touch it for a very long time.

[XemaSab]

4. I wonder what could POSSIBLY be the cause

:eyes:

[Nihil]

5. Wonder where he pulled that "expectation" from?

> “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.”

They knew they'd had Deepwater Horizon last Spring.
They knew they'd got even more agricultural runoff on top of that.
They knew about the "usual" oil industry leakage and the "usual"
chemical pollution.

Yet he thought that they "should have had a good year"????

Clue for you pal: They still had to be "forced" to "scale back operations" ...
and that is so much of your problem right there ...

:eyes:

[kestrel91316]

6. This is inevitable. We have been treating the Gulf like an open sewer for

300 years.

What I find shocking is that anyone would expect any different outcome.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. Don't worry! They'll rebound.

Just like the North Atlantic cod.

:(