July 23, 2019 — Elaine Walker Knight, founding director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance and founding director of Wild American Shrimp Inc., passed away on 15 July.
Knight, 79, was the first president and founding director of Wild American Shrimp, Inc., the United States shrimp industry’s first national marketing initiative.
Knight was also founding director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance and served two terms as president.
“Seventeen years ago, leaders of the shrimp industry from across the country’s southern coastline came together in response to what they saw as an immediate threat to the continued existence of the commercial fishery. Volunteering their time, their money, and their reputations, these industry veterans built a national response to the challenges facing shrimpers throughout the South Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico,” the Southern Shrimp Alliance said in a press release.