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Coastal Acadiana Seafood Supply Chain Study Reveals Obstacles and Opportunities

Coastal Acadiana Seafood Supply Chain Study Reveals Obstacles and Opportunities

A comprehensive seafood supply chain study of Louisiana’s St. Mary, Iberia, and Vermilion Parishes highlights obstacles and opportunities for an area battered by an array of environmental disasters, economic losses and competition from imports.  The study confirmed what the seafood industry in those parishes, as well as all along the entire Gulf coast, have speculated for years; without a unified voice and aligned economic development at all government levels, Gulf seafood is in trouble, big trouble.

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USDA Rural Development Grants Gulf Seafood Supply Chain Study for Three Acadiana Parishes

USDA Rural Development Grants Gulf Seafood Supply Chain Study for Three Acadiana Parishes

A grant entitled Community Economic Development in Rural Coastal Acadiana Parishes is a collaborative effort between the University of Louisiana Lafayette and Meridian Institute. The focus is on seafood in coastal Acadiana, a very rural region of the state.

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