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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Yup- it’s sad that a great hard working industry is taking a hit like it is- There are several jobs associated with the fishign industry which will suffer jobs like bait shops, bait and tackle shops, filet services, packaging, preserving, and jobs like cpt, first mates, deck hands, dock workers, boat maintenance jobs, boat storage- the list goes on and on-
It IS true that imports keep prices low and we need them. We do not need the filth, contamination and the slave like labor practices that go with those imports, which is why I suggest we limit them by stopping said offenders.
I totally agree about the energy policies. Think I saw a stat that fuel went from .65 to over $3,,,that the average boat uses 100 gal a day.
Just understand that this is another chapter in The War on Natural Resource Harvesters begun under Noxious Nixon and continued under every President since, except maybe DJT. Commercial fishing was the first group hit, then timber and miners, followed by farmers and ranchers.
Who profits besides the big NGOs (Ford, Pew et al) behind this action? Sportsmen for one, real estate companies for another, then there are the lesser known smaller NGOs like American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. Audubon and The Sierra Club are the foot soldiers and legal eagles.
regulatory agencies.
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Which should not exist in the first place.
I always read the label of any import food and avoid any product from China, Indonesia, or Vietnam simply because of health concerns. Educate buyers and let them make the decisions, not the gov’t.
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