Louisiana shrimpers struggle to make ends meet after prices plummet

August 10, 2022 Gulf of Mexico, National

“We’re just steady shrimping for nothing,” Cameron Parish shrimper Anthony Theriot said. Theriot says the return on investment is making him reconsider leaving the dock each day. “It’s about $450 a day, with the price of fuel right now that’s 100 gallons of fuel with a little bit of snacks to eat, you go out, you catch 1,000 pounds of shrimp, 1,000 pounds of 50/60′s right now, you’re looking at $650 at 65 cents a pound, at $650, it costs $450 to go catch them, you have crew members looking at you wanting to make money so by the time you divide it all up, you have nothing there,” he said. Video, >click to read< 09:37

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One Response to Louisiana shrimpers struggle to make ends meet after prices plummet

Jerry says:

August 10, 2022 at 6:56 pm

I’m so sad for our farmers of the sea.
They can’t catch a break.
Greed has taken over our marketing society and processors and distributors forget about our own people fighting to be there for America.
Foreign countries destroy our fisheries .
We are in a big mess.
God help us all

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