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Governor John Bel Edwards Signs Seafood Bill
By Josh Roberson | June 19, 2019 at 6:55 AM CDT – Updated June 19 at 12:06 PM NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) – Governor Edwards will sign the seafood labeling bill into law today after it passed unanimously in the legislative session. After it’s signed, the law will require that any permanent establishment labels the […]
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High water, spillway openings take toll on Louisiana harvests
High water, spillway openings take toll on Louisiana harvests By National Fisherman June 18, 2019 Share High-water events and the unprecedented two spring 2019 openings of the Bonnet Carré Spillway have sharply depressed Louisiana’s landings of oysters, shrimp, crab and finfish, the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries reported this week. Flood levels across the […]
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Bill requiring restaurants to label imported shrimp and crawfish passes Louisiana House
Bill requiring restaurants to label imported shrimp and crawfish passes Louisiana House By Steve Bittenbender May 9, 2019 Share The Louisiana state House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill earlier this week that would require restaurants in the state that serve crawfish and shrimp to notify customers of the product’s country of origin. After the […]
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Pastry chefs’ secret: Fish tubs
Fish tubs from wholesalers: flat, easy to stack and ideal for storing and transferring cookies and other kinds of pastry. (Deb Lindsey/For The Washington Post) By Bonnie S. BenwickDecember 2, 2014Email the author The creativity of the pastry chefs I know is something I’ll never be able to match, but now I stash and carry my […]
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Louisiana blue crab fishery achieves sustainability certification
Louisiana blue crab fishery achieves certification first By Madelyn Kearns December 16, 2016 SHARE The Louisiana blue *crab fishery has become the first to successfully complete the auditing process for Audubon Nature Institute’s Gulf United for Fisheries’ (G.U.L.F.) Responsible Fisheries Management (RFM) certification, which gauges and encourages responsible practices for the sustainable harvest of Gulf of Mexico […]
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Do Fish Feel Pain?
Do fish feel pain? By Jewel Fraser January 29, 2018 This is the first of a two-part series exploring the question, “Do fish feel conscious pain?” Part two will appear tomorrow. In December, fish welfare activists made the news when they picketed locations of Captain D’s and Long John Silver in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, to […]
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Hurricane Harvey’s impact on regional seafood sector still being determined
Hurricane Harvey’s impact on regional seafood sector still being determined By Christine Blank Published on August 30, 2017 Share Hurricane Harvey has caused significant damage in Southeast Texas, but experts in the shrimp industry don’t believe there will be a long-term impact on the United States’ Gulf of Mexico shrimp industry. However, some […]
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Tilapia virus, spreading rapidly, poses threat to global food security
By Nicki Holmyard Published on June 13, 2017 Share Tilapia farmers around the world are growing increasingly concerned about the growing number of incidences of Tilapia Lake Virus (TiLV), which has already been reported in Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Israel, and Thailand. TiLV is a newly emerging and highly contagious virus associated with significant mortalities in […]
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Gulf dead zone no smaller, yet hypoxia task force cites improvements.
Dead zone on La.-Texas coast seen as size of Connecticut Computer estimate of April through October 2016 low oxygen levels in Gulf PrintEmail By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on December 06, 2016 at 4:38 PM, updated December 07, 2016 at 3:44 PM A federal-state task force charged with reducing the nutrients […]
