Competition from imports and the rising costs of doing business are just two of the pressures facing Louisiana crabbers, said Keith Watts as he prepares to represent the state’s crabbing industry on the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board.
Watts, owner of K.W. Crabbing in Pontchatoula, has been a crab fisherman for 30 years and will serve on the board on behalf of the state’s Crab Task Force, which he currently chairs.
Almost from the beginning, Watts has been active in speaking out on issues affecting the state’s crabbers. He has served on the Crab Task Force for more than 10 years. Before that, he was a member of the Concerned Crabbers Association in the late 1980s in which crabbers came together to discuss industry issues and problems.
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