These wetlands, these alligators … it has to have some kind of monetary value,” said George Melancon, alligator research biologist for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
A decades-long slide into irrelevance for the U.S. shrimping industry, centered on the Gulf Coast, now threatens to become permanent, a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
A NOAA Fisheries snapshot report concluded that the Gulf of Mexico shrimp fleet “cannot sustainably compete” with imported shrimp, though the authors suggest domestic harvesters can find success by ...