Chairman Harlon Pearce says production of brown shrimp this year was only mediocre, and that’s meant higher consumer prices. and prices stayed high. Photo: Ed Lallo/Newsroom Ink
by Don Ames/WWL.com
Though high shrimp prices may be good news for shrimpers, the industry is not all that pleased with the just concluded inland brown shrimp season.
The Gulf Seafood Institute is hoping for a turnaround as a new season begins.
Chairman Harlon Pearce says production of brown shrimp this year was only mediocre, and that’s meant higher consumer prices. and prices stayed high.
“We started late, ended late, cold weather hurt us, rains hurt us…fresh water…all these things hurt us,” says Pearce. “Spring was tough, and everything is behind a month or so, in production levels.”
“If we’d have had a normal spring, we probably would have been in a different position.”
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