High heels and wingtips, clicking and clacking on marble steps. The constant buzz of voices, bouncing off the walls of flag-lined corridors. Hands continuously in motion, shaking and passing paper after paper from one to another.
These were the sights and sounds of “Walk the Hill” week, with the Louisiana Seafood Board and members of the Gulf Oyster Industry Council (GOIC).
Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, and assistant executive director Kristin McLaren and staff member Krystal Cox joined other seafood advocates from five Gulf states in Washington, D.C.
Year after year, they meet with federal agencies, congressmen, senators and their staff to educate them on the needs and concerns of the state’s diverse seafood industries: crab, oyster, shrimp, finfish, alligator and crawfish.
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