The Gulf of Mexico represents less than 10 percent of the U.S. shrimp supply, but the anxiousness surrounding the catastrophic oil spill in the region is reverberating across the global shrimp supply chain.
Due to rotating fishing closures across much of the southeastern part of the state, Louisiana shrimp production was about 30 percent of what it normally is in mid-June; the state accounted for nearly 44 percent of the 131.3-million-pound Gulf shrimp catch last year.
The supply shortfall in th…
