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re: Shrimpers Might go on strike
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
Who buys foreign shrimp? I realize the label can lie but most people I know avoid them.
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Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:04 pm to LSUFanHouston
A friend of mine who lives on the Northshore owns a crab boat and he gets paid in cash.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:04 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Shrimpers Might go on strike
The lady I buy shrimp from at the Nola farmers market has been saying this for 2 years. She always comes through with nice size shrimp on the cheap tho.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:07 pm to momentoftruth87
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They have a market. The shrimp market.
I think you are thinking more along the lines of a cartel. That is illegal in the United States.
No, I meant like a seafood market.
That shrimp lot in Westwego has gone to hell, but something like that.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:08 pm to Mr Wonderful
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It’s not that they didn’t have any financials to prove, it’s just that the amount of under the table income was substantial. They can sell direct to the consumer for more than the dock is paying and not have to pay taxes on it. It’s a win win
This is how it is explained to me. Some of the guys I work with moonlight a few weekends a year shrimping.
Said they can clear 30k only working about 8 days of actual shrimping. I didn't take that as typical though.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:09 pm to fightin tigers
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Said they can clear 30k only working about 8 days of actual shrimping. I didn't take that as typical though.
Wanna be a trawla, shrimp bawla, 20 foot nets, drop em in da watuh
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:10 pm to LSUFanHouston
Well how are they gonna afford meth ?
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:12 pm to LSUFanHouston
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No, I meant like a seafood market.
That shrimp lot in Westwego has gone to hell, but something like that.
Ahh lol
I didn't pick that up from how I read it
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:14 pm to LSUFanHouston
Show em the video of the Chinese worker getting pulverized in the rotating machinery from the other thread.
that'll shut em up.
that'll shut em up.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:22 pm to LSUFanHouston
Good point. My question has always been, why not form a co-op? I understand the vast majority of the time they’re out shrimping, but they should be able to pool resources to afford the cost of a small co-op. Then they could do to the distributors what the distributors have been doing to them for ages.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:22 pm to LSUFanHouston
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They have ceded all power to the distributors.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:26 pm to LSUFanHouston
What will coach o do after he is fired?
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:28 pm to OweO
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What will coach o do after he is fired?
should be able to buy a fleet of shrimp boats
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:29 pm to 777Tiger
At least 7 Jenny's
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:30 pm to LSUFanHouston
They ain't making money but some how Portier Shipyard has been build 2-3 brand new boats every year for the last 30 years. I have several friends that commercial shrimp. One just built a brand new 40' Jefferson Skiff and has close to $250,000 in it and the other just put a brand engine 250 HP Yamaha on his boat that he paid for cash for, that he picked up from the dealer in a brand new paid for Z-71..... they making money. The only ones that don't are fair weather fisherman who stay tied to the dock.
Is foreign competition hurting them.... yes. But they still making it.
Is foreign competition hurting them.... yes. But they still making it.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:39 pm to SeeeeK
I heard from a very good source that there are people shipping in shrimp from Asia and packaging them in US packages and selling them as domestic shrimp. This is in the Lafite area. But the big distributors have some much power that nothing is going to be done about it
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:41 pm to CHEDBALLZ
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some how Portier Shipyard has been build 2-3 brand new boats every year for the last 30 years
they build for foreign fisherman, not just local guys
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
So tariffs would work? Crawfish prices jump up because more demand? We switch to more oysters?
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:48 pm to TexasTiger89
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Who buys foreign shrimp? I realize the label can lie but most people I know avoid them.
My guess is restaurants, and anyone who needs the smaller sizes.
Go to restaurant depot any day and see how many chefs are buying swai. If they are going to buy swai, I assume they are going to buy foreign shrimp as well.
Posted on 8/9/18 at 2:48 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Wanna be a trawla, shrimp bawla, 20 foot nets, drop em in da watuh
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