Foreign Shrimp at the Shrimp and Petroleum Fest in Morgan City?

If the festival doesn't specify vendors must use gulf shirmp or if the vendor isn't advertising gulf shrimp, there really is no issue.

Funny story regardless.

The guy doesn't really seem to make me believe his Tech is 100% accurate either.

Said it wouldn't stand up to scientific scrutiny, wouldn't name anyone, and compared it to a Covid test which I recall not being the most accurate either.


Not saying he's lying but I'd like to see some scientifically sound tests done

I found out years ago that the shrimp sold in the U.S. actually come from China. I understand that the restaurants are seeking to make a profit but shrimp from China, although very cheap, are raised in what we call sewage ponds. I never order seafood at a restaurant because of how the seafood that they sell is raised. Most restaurants seek to make a profit with the foreign seafood that they sell. It makes me mad that we have seafood sellers in this state that the locals don't use. Instead we are being served seafood that are raised in fecal matter ponds. There are a couple of Chinese restaurants in Denham and Walker that state if the seafood is imported. A couple of years ago I was reading a magazine that had an article about the Chinese seafood industry. The article showed pictures of what the shrimp looked like the minute after they were caught. Years ago I worked in Donaldsonville and we always used the White Castle ferry. One day the ferry stopped in the middle of the river and many got out of their cars to see why the ferry stopped. They were trying to hook a body of a drowned person. They recovered the body and when they got the body, over one hundred catfish were jumping off of the body. The drowned person was a tug boat worker that fell off of his boat two days earlier. I bet that his funeral was held immediately because the body was decomposing.

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Of the four vendors selling foreign shrimp, two were local restaurants and the other two were vendors that exclusively service fairs and festivals, Williams said. He declined to identify them by name, saying his testing wasn’t meant to embarrass anyone. However, he said, festival organizers should hold vendors to a higher standard.

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It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out who the two local restaurants were if local folks want to know.

There's a locally owned restaurant in my area that recently started serving "southern fried fish". Someone asked on their Facebook page, what kind of fish it was. The answer was "southern fried fish".

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Someone asked on their Facebook page, what kind of fish it was. The answer was "southern fried fish".





Yep. I never order “fish” or “fried fish” at a restaurant. It needs to tell me what the fish is.

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Same. I rarely order crawfish dishes in restaurants either. I don't trust that they are using Louisiana crawfish unless the menu specifies it.

So many folks have no idea what kind of fish they're eating because they're unaware that restaurants can't say "catfish" if it's not catfish. Now, I'm going to be looking more closely to see if the shrimp are Gulf shrimp. I remember a long time ago, I noticed on an Outback menu that their shrimp is imported.