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Shrimpers plan to tie up boats over dropping prices
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:45 pm
Greed or just trying to make a living? I always see complaining about crawfish prices, but not much about shrimp.
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"The Louisiana Shrimp Association called the meeting after the price per pound dropped almost $2 in the last few weeks. Right now, fishermen can get around $1.80 per pound for smaller shrimp from processors. The Louisiana Shrimp Association says shrimpers were getting almost $3 for the same catch at the start of the season.
"That's $1,400 every thousand pounds I catch," said Acy Cooper, the LSA vice-president. "That's too much, too quick. The market doesn't reflect the downfall."
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"The Louisiana Shrimp Association called the meeting after the price per pound dropped almost $2 in the last few weeks. Right now, fishermen can get around $1.80 per pound for smaller shrimp from processors. The Louisiana Shrimp Association says shrimpers were getting almost $3 for the same catch at the start of the season.
"That's $1,400 every thousand pounds I catch," said Acy Cooper, the LSA vice-president. "That's too much, too quick. The market doesn't reflect the downfall."
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Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:46 pm to WoWyHi
Unbelievable
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:47 pm to WoWyHi
Not greedy, just trying to rely on market protectionism. Guessing they probably classify themselves as "conservatives" too.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:47 pm to WoWyHi
Gas prices are dropping too. What's the problem?
I say greed.
I say greed.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:48 pm to Rickety Cricket
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Not greedy, just trying to rely on market protectionism.
I just don't know that basically striking is going to be effective. It's just going to piss consumers off.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:52 pm to WoWyHi
Viets will still shrimp and will make money.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:53 pm to WoWyHi
They were getting higher than average prices earlier this year due to a disease that affected imported shrimp, now they are bitching because prices are falling more in line.
frick em!
frick em!
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:53 pm to WoWyHi
I have a buddy with 2 boats both just under 40' they are skimmer boats. He has a captain running 1 of them and he runs one himself. He is living very nice. It may be greed on their part but if the factories cant sell the shrimp they have in the freezer the price will drop. Nature of the business.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:54 pm to glassman
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Viets will still shrimp and will make money.
No doubt. I know for a fact that there's very little loyalty as a group goes. They'll be plenty still out there working, but striking is going to backfire in my opinion.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:56 pm to glassman
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Viets will still shrimp and will make money.
My thoughts exactly. Those guys are hungry and hard working, and most didn't get fat and lazy ripping off BP.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:56 pm to WoWyHi
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but striking is going to backfire in my opinion.
No doubt. I deal with shrimpers on an almost daily basis. The Viets never complain, the white guys do nothing but bitch.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:57 pm to Festus
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lazy ripping off BP
This was a HUGE deal a few months after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Lots of people I know made a lot of money from BP with their boats.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:59 pm to WoWyHi
They got paid for their boats being tied up doing nothing. 
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:59 pm to glassman
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The Viets never complain
How would you know? The ones I've interacted with left me kind of WTF, I understood like every 5th word.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:00 pm to glassman
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They got paid for their boats being tied up doing nothing.
A few I know were actually skimming at first, but it was a mess and they soon tied up like the rest.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:03 pm to WoWyHi
Same here. Seen some of the payouts that allowed many of them to retire with the lifestyles they lived after they estimated losses hundreds, sometimes thousands of times hire than actual. They're not hungry, don't need to work, and have the "screw the consumers" attitude.
Thing is, the Viets will pick up their slack. And in a few years, when the lazies have blown through their settlements, you'll see them badmouthing the foreigners wanting to get back in.
Thing is, the Viets will pick up their slack. And in a few years, when the lazies have blown through their settlements, you'll see them badmouthing the foreigners wanting to get back in.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:03 pm to QuietTiger
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How would you know?
I deal with them on a daily basis. My customer list set up in my data base is dominated by Nguyens, Trans and Buis.
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The ones I've interacted with left me kind of WTF, I understood like every 5th word.
I usually get a young one in with an older one. Old one has the cash and the young one is an interpreter.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:04 pm to glassman
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young one is an interpreter.
Yeah, the bored looking one.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:07 pm to QuietTiger
They love to haggle pricing. Makes for a good interaction. I love my Viet customers.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:07 pm to Festus
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Thing is, the Viets will pick up their slack. And in a few years, when the lazies have blown through their settlements, you'll see them badmouthing the foreigners wanting to get back in.
This would be pretty damn funny and sad.
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Same here. Seen some of the payouts that allowed many of them to retire with the lifestyles they lived after they estimated losses hundreds, sometimes thousands of times hire than actual. They're not hungry, don't need to work, and have the "screw the consumers" attitude.
I was shocked at what some were getting paid.
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