louisiana shrimp industry

Inshore shrimp season in Louisiana will open a couple weeks later than usual this year, and shrimpers are all for it.

Talk to most shrimpers and they will say this familiar foe is driving down the price of shrimp, making it nearly impossible for US shrimpers to hang on.

As President Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs on more foreign goods, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) has called on him to levy tariffs of up to 100% on seafood imports — particularly shrimp and crawfish — from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

The festival’s "misleading’ response is ‘an embarrassment,'" a legislator said.

Private inspectors find four out of five vendors serving imported shrimp.

The spending bill signed by President Trump last week will increase the amount of money for inspections of imported seafood -- a move praised by the...