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Blake Price, a fisheries biologist who worked with the National Marine Fisheries Service, has been named deputy director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance. Southern Shrimp Alliance photo.

Blake Price named deputy director at Southern Shrimp Alliance

NF Staff

With tariffs and anti-fraud legislation pushing prices up, shrimpers are calling for swift passage of the Save Our Shrimpers Act, which would stop the U.S. from contributing billions to the World Bank for building more shrimp farms. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Moving the SOS Act

Paul Molyneaux

The Notus trawl sensor system with Echo showing the level of noise on the grate and grate angle. According to Francis Parrott, Newfoundlanders did not immediately adopt Echo. “But about 30 percent of the fleet has it now and more are getting it,” he says.

Shrimp sensor turns noise into numbers

Paul Molyneaux

A shrimp boat at Brunswick, Ga. Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Southern shrimpers cheer tariffs on India shrimp imports

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Shrimp processing in South Asia. The Southern Shrimp Alliance says new trade agreements with Indonesia and Vietnam could help combat unethical practices and open markets to competitive access. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Southern shrimpers hail ‘breakthrough’ on shrimp tariffs

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Chris Estes, owner operator of the Mr. Ellis, put a nasty hole in his boat when he hit the rock jetty in Bob Sikes Cut on his way home to Apalachicola on the night of June 25. Estes got his young crew off quickly and now has the boat ashore and under repa

Mr Ellis is down but not out

Paul Molyneaux

The South Carolina Shrimpers Association is in talks with Charleston areas restaurant owners, seeking their support for truthful representation of local wild-caught shrimp versus mislabelling of imported product. Shutterstock photo.

South Carolina shrimpers press restaurants to reform

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Shrimp boats are tied up in Bayou La Batre , Ala. Doug Stewart photo.

Mobile County awards contract for Bayou La Batre City Docks redevelopment

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The Brownsville Fire Department dive and water rescue team searched for a shrimp boat captain after his vessel capsized and sank July 12 in the Brownsville Ship Channel. Brownsville Fire Department photo.

Captain lost in capsizing before Gulf shrimp season opens off Texas

NF Staff

A skimmer net shrimp boat in Delacroix, La., sits idle at the dock with prices too low to pay for fuel. Shrimpers from Texas to the Carolinas hope legislation can prevent restaurants from selling imported shrimp as domestic product. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Southern states lay down the law on seafood labeling

Paul Molyneaux

define North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries photo. — A trawler in North Carolina. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries photo.

Proposed NC shrimp trawl ban defeated

Kirk Moore