Alan Gibson’s family seafood processing business goes back four generations. Gibson, appointed by the governor to represent the interests of the American Shrimp Processors Association, looks to do what’s right for the shrimp industry he represents on the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.
As president of Tideland Seafood Company, Inc. in Dulac, he is one of only two returning members from the previous Board.
Representing an Industry He Knows Well
It’s an industry he understands well, from harvest to market. Gibson’s great grandfather originally dried shrimp for export in the early 1920s. In 1938, he founded the Buquet Canning Company and began canning shrimp, Gibson explained.
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