BATON ROUGE – Louisiana’s Seafood Future released a report that summarizes a year of outreach to members of the Louisiana seafood industry.
The report’s findings draw on public meetings with and surveys completed by seafood industry members in the last year.
Governor John Bel Edwards spurred this effort in early 2018, when he asked the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF), and Louisiana Sea Grant to reach out to Louisiana fishermen and learn how they were dealing with land loss, commodity prices, and the effects of coastal protection and restoration projects.
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