Louisiana’s commercial fishing families have long been the backbone of the state’s working coast. From shrimp docks in ...

Clay Higgins, of Lafayette, came together in an attempt to heighten the regulatory wall protecting Louisiana’s ... has allowed contaminated seafood to enter our markets.” ...

New bill aims to give FDA power to destroy contaminated seafood imports and close re-export loophole risking public health ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Louisiana Crawfish Festival is tightening enforcement of state seafood labeling laws after one vendor was caught selling imported Chinese crawfish Friday evening without ...

“We have been getting our local oysters in containers from Mississippi and Louisiana suppliers,” said Joe Lewis, owner of East Brewton Seafood Market. “But we get our oysters in the shell ...

Local seafood was once easy to find in Louisiana, but an influx of cheap foreign catch, particularly shrimp and crawfish, has flooded the market over the past two decades. Williams said she ...

Unfair international competition from countries with lax environmental and labor standards has devastated Louisiana’s shrimp markets. Strengthening trade enforcement and boosting the Seafood ...