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.
Alabama’s oyster reefs are likely to experience little effect from fresh water flowing in the west, although reefs in Louisiana and Mississippi will be damaged.
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