Shrimp Fraud Found to be Rampant at Restaurants

* Research predates name change.

Restaurants throughout the Gulf Coast are serving imported shrimp but telling their customers they're feasting on fresh crustaceans fished in the Gulf of Mexico*, a series of new studies found.

SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.

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There is no gulf of mexico

Gulf of America shrimp are the best!

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Originally Posted by Policarp

Gulf of America shrimp are the best!

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……notice that a number of restaurants are putting “imported” along with shrimp dishes on menus…..anybody have an answer to the problem?

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Originally Posted by Boomer

……notice that a number of restaurants are putting “imported” along with shrimp dishes on menus…..anybody have an answer to the problem?

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Restaurants doing this are a straight up kick in the nuts to licensed Louisiana commercial fishermen. I'd be willing to bet that culprits of this have painted murals of Miss Paula dragging 40' nets painted on their walls.

Some of those with "imported" on their menu have already been busted for misrepresentaion.

Others with "imported" on their menu are trying to avoid getting busted.

Easy fix.

Tarrif the you know what out of chinese seafood.

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Easy fix.

Tarrif the you know what out of chinese seafood.

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If we had the domestic industry and supply, sure. But decades of imported seafood and no protection from the federal/state levels has decimated local shrimping industry. I can only imagine how much a shrimp boat cost now, half a million?

Tariffs on imported shrimp will only make restaurant prices go up 20%+. Who are you going to convince to pick up shrimping as a career in 2025 that wasn't born into it? In a country/state that doesn't support the industry.

lol

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...Tariffs on imported shrimp will only make restaurant prices go up 20%+..

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Yep. Prices would go up initially. There would be growing pains. Either we try to save the industry, or we lose it forever.

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All good.

Who paid for the consultant? Is the fda part of this?

Veing from the gulf and being imported are not necessarily mutually exclusive

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Tallest Oompa Loompa award. I have close ties to the LA shrimping industry; it's on its last leg. There can be no domestic shrimping industry rebound without significant federal subsidies ahead of tariffs. I would say state, but we're already broke.

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Tallest Oompa Loompa award. I have close ties to the LA shrimping industry; it's on its last leg. There can be no domestic shrimping industry rebound without significant federal subsidies ahead of tariffs. I would say state, but we're already broke.

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The shrimp aren't going anywhere. They're an annual crop. Spawns produce millions upon millions each year. Grow incredible fast. If we stopped netting 'em you wouldn't be able to catch a fish b/c they'd all be full!

I've read 55% come from farms, but that's the pathway forward. The old world is passing away like the wake behind Shrimp boats. Its inevitable. In the early 90's shrimp [wild caught] accounted for 85% of the value of edible fisheries production here in LA.

And yep, as usual, we're broke.

There is an opportunity to be had

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There is an opportunity to be had

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It's an enormous opportunity. And our President is changing the world in his first week.

Its crazy simple: America First.

Its crazy simple, Gulf Shrimp tastes better.

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……notice that a number of restaurants are putting “imported” along with shrimp dishes on menus…..anybody have an answer to the problem?

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The places that have imported shrimp are required to put that sign according to the Department of health. It was a new thing implemented this year. My brother is a health inspector so that’s how I knew the info

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Its crazy simple, Gulf Shrimp tastes better.

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Make Gulf of America Great Again.

I've always called it "The Gulf"

When I worked as an X-Ray Technician in the Oilfield "The Gulf"

When friends were going fishing "The Gulf"

Hurricanes "The Gulf"

I'll only use the full name if someone is confused and asks me to be specific.

The shrimping industry has been on it's last legs for the past 50 years. Someone's always going to be out there casting a net.

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The shrimping industry has been on its last legs for the past 50 years. Someone's always going to be out there casting a net.

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…..Shrimp boats are a commin’their sails are in sight …shrimp boats are a-commin’ there’s dancing tonight! …love that song!

And then we have a ton of restaurants that have “Fried Fish” on the menu, which means it’s likely ____ imported basa basa or swai from Asia.