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Mississippi flooding to have impact on Gulf seafood industry |
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A rare combination of freshwater flooding from the Mississippi River and a deep springtime drought will be good and bad for the bottom lines of regional seafood catchers and processors, regulators and industry leaders said last week.
Among the winners, they predicted, will be larger shrimp boats that trawl deep in the Gulf of Mexico as well as the oyster tongers of south Alabama. Read the complete story from Alabama Live.
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Monterey Bay's historic "wetfish" industry is under attack by extremist groups who claim overfishing is occurring. Touting studies with faulty calculations, activists are lobbying federal regulators to massively limit fishing, if not ban these fisheries outright. Apparently the facts don’t matter to groups with an anti-fishing agenda
