Coronavirus: Fishing markets impacted by new restaurant guidelines and shifting markets

One of the owners of ‘Erickson and Jensen’ says these changes have not impacted the prices of their shrimp, but it has impacted their actual sales. ‘Erickson and Jensen’ has been a family-run shrimp business since the 1950s. “Well we’ve been doing this for a long time, my family is multi-generational, we’ve always been fisherman,” said Grant Erickson.,, While they’ve seen their sales to restaurants go down, they have seen their sales to markets like Publix go up. “We can see the change happening in that there is a heavier demand in retail than in the restaurant area,” said Erickson. >click to read< 10:03

One Response to Coronavirus: Fishing markets impacted by new restaurant guidelines and shifting markets

  1. Charles Bernard says:

    prices have drop here in Louisiana at the docks and keep dropping so for someone to say prices haven’t changed means someone is lying or processors are stealing

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