Shrimp Fraud Found to be Rampant at Restaurants

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* 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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[R1Letterman]

There is no gulf of mexico

[Policarp]

Gulf of America shrimp are the best!

[Boomer]

Gulf of America shrimp are the best!

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

[Swamp]

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

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.

[Turbine]

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.

[CajunNation]

Easy fix.

Tarrif the you know what out of chinese seafood.

[RedTails]

Easy fix.

Tarrif the you know what out of chinese seafood.

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.

[Swamp]

lol

[CajunNation]

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

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

[Swamp]

All good.

[R1Letterman]

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

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