Posted on 09/17/2024 3:52:08 AM PDT by Adder
Congressman Troy Nehls believes American money is being used to endanger America’s shrimping industry and he wants to put a stop to it through the Save Our Shrimpers (SOS) Act.
“Our American companies are trying to compete with this shrimp coming in from Ecuador, and it’s just killing the prices,” Nehls (R-TX) noted.
He said he heard from fishermen across his district and the entire Gulf region who told him they are no longer sending out shrimping crawlers because foreign competition has driven prices too low and inflation has driven expenses so high that it is no longer profitable.
“Our American shrimpers are being squeezed to the point that they’re going to lose their businesses. And many of these businesses are second, third, fourth generation,” he added.
This issue, which has been widely reported in fishing outlets, has reached such a proportion that many now believe it is existential for the industry. Five Texas counties have issued disaster declarations over the peril their local shrimping industries are facing, the Texas Observer reported.
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Please be aware of where your meals come from.
BTTT
Sorry but just like the American farmer and land is being turned into cheaply built housing, nobody cares so long as they get inexpensive food in their plate right now.
They don’t see that, like our heavy industrial base, we’re slowly becoming dependent upon foreign produced foodstuffs, not just exotic fruits like bananas or pineapples but more and more like beef and pork and, as this article states, shrimp.
My dad had a small shrimp boat for a while when I was kid, he operated out of somewhere around the Freeport area outside of Houston, he built it on a hull he bought out of a farmer’s field after hurricane Carla.
The Gulf used to be a wonderful playground with an abundance of seafood that you could catch even for lunch on the beach with a hand seining net, or a gig and lantern at night or crab cages on the bayside, when the boat people came with the oriental way of stripping all the water bounty for the now without a view to the future, the trouble started.
“They” did the same thing to the PAC NW salmon industry, except it was a combination of salmon farms and French imports of Coho.
My wife and I went there once. They had run out of shrimp before we got there.
You are correct. Most people don’t care so long as its cheap.
But some of this stuff will harm you in the long run.
I read or saw somewhere that the FDA only tests a miniscule amount of foreign products and are simply overwhelmed by the sheer volume being imported.
Other countries don’t seem to have a problem banning American foods they deem “inferior”...we should do the same.
Yes.
Some of that farmed salmon is simply disgusting...you can see how unhealthy it looks next to wild caught: pale orange and fatty compared to healthy deep orange and lean.
Seems like we don’t care about our native industries until its too late.
This reminds me of when the Vietnamese were relocated to Texas in the 70’s. They killed the shrimping industry then.
they are no longer sending out shrimping crawlers
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Yep got to watch out for them ‘crawlers’....
Can’t catch much with them.
on the east coast- fishermen are seeing a massive sudden decline in fish and lobster, which they think may be related to the windmill farms in the ocean- apparently they disrupt something in the breeding/development cycle- or something-
Prices are going to skyrocket in the near future because of it
Instead of passing a law that keeps shrimp prices high and hurts the American consumer, lower the shrimp industry's major input cost and get rid of Biden's restrictive fuel policies.
The dims killed off the Keystone XL to pander to the eco weenies. I don’t think they knew what massive problems it caused.
It killed jobs on the pipeline and at the refineries in Port Arthur, TX (btw, that is a big time union town)
It caused the price of all fuels to go up driving the prices of everything else to go up.
Rich libs don’t care because none of this affects them. But it does affect most of the dimrat voters. I hope President Trump finds a way to communicate that to the misguided Americans that still vote for the dimrat candidates.
Seems like we don’t care about our native industries until its too late.
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The West Coast salmon industry was destroyed through what now is called “lawfare”. Spearheaded by the Federal government using Treaty Tribes as a plaintiff.
Actual Commercial salmon fishermen were demonized in local newspapers, then nationally on TV and magazines like Nat Geo, and finally in churches.
The Propaganda was overwhelming and trying to fight the Federal Gov’s legal challenges was a lost cause, even in SCOTUS.
Ordinary people did not know what to believe. Sports fishermen took advantage and pilled on, sell their catches illegally and tax free. Some even complained at public fisheries meetings that they had so many fish, they had to throw out freezers full of salmon to make room for the next year’s fish.
The decline is due to the electric currents form the cables and the noise - fish navigate using electrical senses and run from noises. Soon there will be no fish at all, except those that cannot flee, like shellfish.
Still later, the local seafood restaurants will have to either close or sell fish that were caught elsewhere, thus destroying the “locally caught” meme.
Young men will have one less job opportunity, as family fishing businesses close, selling their livelihoods for pennies on the dollar, if that much.
Instead of passing a law that keeps shrimp prices high and hurts the American consumer, lower the shrimp industry’s major input cost and get rid of Biden’s restrictive fuel policies.
or save the work and get rid of the EPA and NOAA.
Agree! Congress has let agencies run rampant issuing new regulations while Congress takes a nap. Congress has abdicated its responsibility of Congressional oversight on regulatory agencies.
You, sir, get it. It all boils down to the cost of energy.
All of it.
L
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