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The Fallacies of Shrimp Protectionism
Ludwig von Mises Institute ^ | 6/27/2004 | Don Mathew

Posted on 08/09/2007 7:49:09 PM PDT by ari-freedom

The U.S. shrimping industry must be thriving. Or so one would think. Only a generation ago, shrimp were all but considered a delicacy and came at a steep price, but today, fresh and frozen shrimp are readily available at grocery stores, never mind restaurants, and Americans are taking full advantage of the abundance. In 2003, Americans consumed 1.1 billion pounds of shrimp, up from 685 million pounds in 1994 and 287 million pounds in 1970.

But the U.S. shrimping industry is not thriving, it's sinking fast. The bulk of the domestic shrimp catch is harvested by trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Southeastern Fisheries Association in Tallahassee, Florida, nearly 5,000 shrimpers trawled the Gulf a decade ago. Today, less than 1,900 do.

Why is the U.S. shrimping industry in decline when U.S. shrimp consumption is on the rise? The reason, contend domestic shrimpers, is that foreign shrimp farms are dumping shrimp on the U.S. market.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: shrimp; trade
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To: RavenATB
You IS whistling Dixie in this case Bubba.

Our Shrimps, they be da best...

21 posted on 08/09/2007 9:40:29 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I am a Paulitroll. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: varyouga

We only will share just so much. You ever seen some of us Southern boys?


22 posted on 08/09/2007 9:42:50 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I am a Paulitroll. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: RavenATB

After fuel costs, ice, paying deckhands and upkeep on a trawler...well...there’s not much money to be made these days with tasteles, rubbery Vietnamese and Thai shrimp flooding the market...but who cares..it’s cheap......i live about 10 miles from Bayou La Batre...i know a little about the biz....do we subsidize, protect?...well i don’t have an answer...but we did pretty good in this country for many a years eatin’ good ole gulf shrimp.

My wife always asks me why i don’t order shrimp when we dine out at chain restaurants...i tell her that that crap is a pale comparison to Alabama wild shrimp...i can tell the difference immediately.


23 posted on 08/09/2007 9:50:20 PM PDT by teldon30 (disgruntled 2nd class)
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To: ari-freedom

No. No philosophy is needed unless you think,like the president, that America is only an idea.


24 posted on 08/09/2007 10:16:15 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: ejonesie22

LOL, fresh from the anti-Ron Paul thread. LOL


25 posted on 08/09/2007 10:17:05 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: teldon30
...i tell her that that crap is a pale comparison to Alabama wild shrimp...i can tell the difference immediately.

As can any American with half a tastebud. Chinese or Vietnamese antibiotic riddled shrimp? That's what the globalists want you to eat, because they can make money off it.

Dump GATT and WTO rules, and codex alimentarius 'harmonization', and America's food system will be safe and free market again.
26 posted on 08/09/2007 10:19:58 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: ari-freedom
Don't eat poisonous radioactive lead-filled Chinese shrimp.
27 posted on 08/09/2007 10:22:33 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

Don’t re-elect poisonous radioactive lead-filled Chinese-corrupted federal politicians.


28 posted on 08/09/2007 10:25:43 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: hedgetrimmer

There is the American country, the American people and the American idea. What are you trying to say?


29 posted on 08/09/2007 10:26:46 PM PDT by ari-freedom (I am for a strong national defense, free markets and traditional moral values.)
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To: hedgetrimmer

There are much more important things in life than politics..

Like fresh 10-20 count gulf shrimp wraped in bacon, grilled in a lemon butter sauce, served with a medium rare inch thick ribeye...


30 posted on 08/09/2007 10:36:43 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I am not really a Fred basher, I am a Paulitroll. THOMPSON 2008!)
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To: hedgetrimmer
''If you have to ask, man, you'll never know.''

Louis Armstrong, originally in response to a music ''critic'' who asked, ''Mr. Armstrong, what is jazz?''

31 posted on 08/09/2007 11:55:24 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: teldon30

“i tell her that that crap is a pale comparison to Alabama wild shrimp...i can tell the difference immediately.”

Anyone who has a sense of taste, and who has tried both, would know the difference. It’s not even close...those shrimp raised in Vietnamese grey-water don’t compare.


32 posted on 08/10/2007 6:23:31 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: ari-freedom
South Carolina shrimp market recovering
August 07. 2007
33 posted on 08/10/2007 7:41:36 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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