re: Louisiana shrimpers call for cap on foreign imports

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I would like to know the ratio of domestic and imported. I won't buy imported bc we get our shrimp at the dock off the boats.

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Though I can’t give the exact figure today without looking it up in the National Marine Fisheries Service statistical database, I can tell you that since the 70’s imported shrimp has supplied 80% + of USA domestic shrimp consumption - domestic shrimp production has never been ever to come close to supplying domestic demand for 5 decades, there is simply not enough shrimp in the GOM, south Atlantic and Pacific to do that.

I’m not implying that shrimp imports don’t affect domestic shrimp prices, as indeed they do, but very sizable amounts of seafood imports into USA have been a “thing” for decades in order to meet the consumption demands by the USA population.

I don’t buy imported shrimp either, we are very lucky in south LA to buy fresh domestic shrimp off the docks - very few places places in USA where this can be done.