While there’s already a state marketing and promotion board for Louisiana seafood, a local lawmaker says it isn’t doing enough for all of the state’s fisheries. He’s asking the Legislature to create a new panel that would focus solely on shrimp.
The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board was formed in 1984 to create new opportunities for and to safeguard the state’s commercial fisheries.
While some of its budget comes from state and federal grants, money also comes from license sales to commercial fishermen, wholesalers and retailers.
House Bill 881 by Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, would remove the board’s two shrimp-industry representatives and strip oversight of any shrimp-related money.
