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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Our Shrimps, they be da best...
We only will share just so much. You ever seen some of us Southern boys?
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.
No. No philosophy is needed unless you think,like the president, that America is only an idea.
LOL, fresh from the anti-Ron Paul thread. LOL
Don’t re-elect poisonous radioactive lead-filled Chinese-corrupted federal politicians.
There is the American country, the American people and the American idea. What are you trying to say?
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...
Louis Armstrong, originally in response to a music ''critic'' who asked, ''Mr. Armstrong, what is jazz?''
“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.
Since then, the prices South Carolina shrimpers have been getting for shrimp off their boats has increased as much as 30 percent, said Clay Cable, the vice president of the South Carolina Shrimpers Association.
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