We were just in Biloxi for Mardi Gras and took a shrimp boat tour. The guide/captain was saying the same thing.
I grew up eating those fine Texas shrimp when I would visit my father, for a little while he even had a little shrimp boat, (maybe a 50 footer).
Only a fool would purchase contaminated, third world farm raised seafood.
If there’s not already, some smart cookie should come up with a plan to ship overnight fresh gulf shrimp. I would pay just to try them. Argentine shrimp is also have a unique flavor.
I love shrimp, but I do not order it in a restaurant because I know I would be served farmed shrimp from one of those filthy countries. No, thank you. Ditto for most of tge frozen seafood one sees at the grocery store.
Anyone who has eaten Gulf Shrimp knows there is no equal.
The best American shrimp I ever had were rock shrimp from Florida cooked with shells on. Unfortunately they got overfished and are barely around these days.
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During peak years, commercial landings of brown rock shrimp reached over 20 million pounds annually. Specifically, the highest recorded landings occurred in 1996...This contrasts sharply with the 600,000 pounds landed in 2023
I remember in the 70s & 80s the Vietnamese would disregard our shrimping laws and harvest all they could. It really killed the Gulf shrimpers back in the day.
Our national security does not depend on our consumption of only domestic shrimp. This is nothing but an income transfer from one group of Americans — shrimp consumers — to another — shrimp producers.
Shrimp Boats--Jo Stafford (1951)
"Morgan City, where the shrimp boats land..."
Route 90--Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow (1954)
Foreign fishing operations often use literal slaves. Free labor gives them an unfair advantage.
American companies have higher standards for safety, health, pollution, energy efficiency, etc. when these high standards raise the cost of American goods, the solution should not be to buy foreign products that do not have these standards. Tariffs are necessary to address this imbalance.
I’m sitting on a pier right now in Grand Isle, Louisiana watching shrimp boats out on the horizon do their thing.
This article was like a breath of fresh air. Have you noticed how the powers that be are saturating all media with breathless prose about how bad the tariffs are for [fill in the blank]. The are so desperately searching for a fable that will resonate with Americans.
American shrimps are pretty tasty.
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Yes, they are but they do not produce the quantity the market demands - likely due to the turtle exclusion panels, the highly regulated nets size, and limited time to fish per state and federal regulations.