Save Our Shrimpers Act reintroduced to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to fund foreign shrimp

Recent findings by the Southern Shrimp Alliance uncovered that United States taxpayer dollars were being used to finance foreign shrimp operations through international financial institutions. Cheri Blanchard is a Louisiana board member with the Southern Shrimp Alliance. “We find these situations like we’ve been ringing the bell about the World Bank and about international financing going into foreign shrimp aquaculture and with taxpayer money,” said Blanchard. “The value of U.S. Shrimp has been cut in half from 2021 to 2023, and it’s still about that value because people have had to tie up their boats,” she said. Video, more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:08

One Response to Save Our Shrimpers Act reintroduced to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to fund foreign shrimp

  1. Nena LeBlanc says:

    Our own Government is cutting our throat.
    We’ve been begging for help & now we find out all a long y’all have been giving hundreds of
    Millions of dollars to the foreign Shrimp farmers.

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