Gulf Commercial Fishermen Report Crippling Shrimp & Crab Shortage

NEW ORLEANS — it is a multi-million dollar industry, and 68 percent of the shrimp harvested in the U.S. comes from Texas and Louisiana.

However, this year local fisherman say the shrimp and crab supply is at an all-time low.

"Fisherman cry right away when they aren't making money and this has been a bad year" said commercial fisherman Pete Gerica.

Gerica says this is the worse he has seen in 25 years, "Nobody is fishing close to home, Lake Pontchartrain has been like a ghost town, you go out there and you hardly see a fisherman out there."

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