USDA to buy $30M in shrimp to aid Gulf seafood industry

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Gulf of Mexico seafood industry is getting help from the federal government.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will buy $30 million worth of shrimp from Gulf Coast fishermen in an effort to stabilize the industry.

The announcement comes after Louisiana and Mississippi officials called for federal assistance over fears that the price of seafood could collapse because of an excess in product amid the pandemic, news outlets reported.

“This is a step in the right direction for helping the seafood industry and Louisiana shrimpers in particular,” Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said. “This will help keep our shrimpers in their boats and in business. However, we still have work to do to get our entire seafood industry the assistance it deserves.”



Read more: https://apnews.com/8d99b5b322362854dc24563909a617c6

[Renew Deal]

1. This is part of Trumps strategy to pay any bribe he can.

[Traildogbob]

2. Ha😂😂

Like unemployed homeless people in bankruptcy from Covid bills can afford shrimp! Give those millions to the pet food industry so people can get something meat like to eat.

[kimbutgar]

3. Yuck I'd never eat shrimp from those states anyway.

Remember the deep water horizon explosion in 2010 it destroyed the eco system of the gulf. That industry hasn’t ever fully recovered.



I mistakenly wrote the wrong disaster my bad ..

[John Drake]

6. The Exxon Valdez spill was in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

This is the Gulf of Mexico.

SMFH, Sometimes I wonder.

[paleotn]

9. Deepwater horizon

Or deepwater galactic fuck up. I knew what she meant.

Even this many years later, I still have a moment of pause when it comes to gulf shrimp. For shrimp in general, I love 'em, but don't often partake since the industry is incredibly destructive to bottom dwelling ecosystems.

[kimbutgar]

10. I stand corrected and fixed my post

Deep water horizon not the Exxon Valdez my dummy moment.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

19. I avoid any, "Gulf Shrimp", because of that...

... if I want any poisons in me, I will go outside and smoke a cigarette.

[rwsanders]

28. And there is an on-going spill there that just surpassed the BP spill in volume, yet because it is a

slower release, nothing is being done. The government and the Responsible Party are still arguing over responsibility.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/23/us/taylor-energy-oil-largest-spill-disaster-ivan-golf-of-mexico-environment-trnd/index.html

[Newest Reality]

4. Oh boy!

Since we are paying that, when do we get our free bags of government shrimp? Will it be shelled and de-veined? Frozen? How many should we expect?

[soothsayer]

8. Gubmint shrimp! To go with the old gubmint cheese

[GulfCoast66]

41. That was some really good cheese. Very well aged.

[kiri]

13. shrimp in every pot?

I do wonder what Trumpino's government is going to do with all this shrimp. It is also manifestly inequitable--Jews and Muslims do not eat shrimp; why should they pay for it?

[Jedi Guy]

22. Per the article, the shrimp will be distributed to the needy.

Would you rather that the shrimp industry employees end up on unemployment or welfare while people who would happily eat this shrimp go hungry?

Sometimes our tax dollars go to things that don't benefit us personally, but do benefit others. As long as actual people are benefiting from this, as opposed to Trump's cronies, I'm fine with this subsidy.

[SergeStorms]

42. All of the heads will be removed...

and they already come packed in oil when you receive them. Whatever happened to all of this free-market bullshit we keep hearing from the GOP? Just the GOP using more of that super dangerous "socialism" they keep saying Democrats will bring to the country.

[bottomofthehill]

5. How about the lobster men/women in Massachusetts and Maine

What happened to all the free market crap. How much of that Shrimp will end up at the Trump hotels and clubs at a cheap rate. Got to think the shrimp is a big seller to the Trump crowd.

[paleotn]

11. Lobster industry is getting aid as well....

But not enough and even with that, a lot of operations on the edge won't survive. Could have been different if we'd actually had a tiny modicum of leadership this Spring. We didn't, so we're all collectively fucked.

[kiri]

15. no help for Maine lobstermen

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213861988

But the state’s lobstermen aren’t celebrating. That’s because the area Trump aims to reopen is 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod — far beyond the reach of Maine’s day-boat lobstermen. “This doesn’t help the Maine fisherman at all,” Leroy Weed, 79, who has had a lobster license since he was 10 years old. Most of Maine’s lobstering takes place within three miles of shore, and don’t typically travel more than 30 miles offshore.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/510792-trumps-pitch-to-maine-lobstermen-falls-flat

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

18. Pretty sure that is the article I cite below...

... about the, "extended", lobstering zone.

[paleotn]

26. Ugh!

Usual Donnie bullshit. A total mirage meant to the rubes, not the lobestermen. Then again, I wonder how many in the lobster industry voted for Donnie, particularly in the 2nd District?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

16. The 2018? tariffs on seafood/lobster to China wrecked the market...

... I was reading just a couple of days ago concerning what is posted in this sub thread about extending the lobster fishing zones down to Cape Cod area, that the tariffs killed the Chinese demand for U.S.A. and namely Maine lobsters. 40-50% drop in prices because of glut?

[not fooled]

7. Socialism for me but not for thee!

say pukes' actions, while pukes say "Let's demonize any programs that help non-republican groups as SOCIALIZUM!!!1!!".

[ancianita]

12. And guess who's down the road from the USDA, willing to distribute shrimp? Charles Koch.

He's the guy that forced trump henchmen in DC to move the USDA down the road from him in Kansas.

He's going to show Trumpers and corporatists how you privatize policy, budgets and governing decisions.

[Paladin]

14. "...the assistance it deserves."

Rugged individualist, right-wing politicos---with their hands out, ready to scoop up government money. Typical.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Socialism? What happened to free market forces?

[ancianita]

29. Koch is about to show you how government and free market forces become one and the same.

[keithbvadu2]

34. More like market force?

[ancianita]

39. If you mean what I think you mean, yes, market force.

[keithbvadu2]

40. Yes. Manipulating the market as a force.

Yes. Manipulating the market as a force.

[ancianita]

43. And changing the USDA from govt regulator to market price driver.

It's ominous. I don't like to remember Cheney's "food is a weapon," but the way some right wing capitalists work, class war using food becomes another front in changing a democratic republic into a corporate campus (plantation).

Another reason not to trust this administration and its paper towel approach to our economic disaster.

[infullview]

20. Great! More red state welfare for the tRumpers....

Pretty bad that he has to pay them for their votes.

[Aerator]

23. Trump hotels

Don’t be surprised if the shrimp show up up at trump properties where they will be available for purchase for 50 bucks a pound

[ancianita]

30. +1

[usaf-vet]

21. This is "bringing home the bacon" to get the southern elected Congress members re-elected. PERIOD!

Look at Trump's ridiculous help the Lobster industry. He is reopening fishing grounds Obama closed.

The Lobstermen and women are laughing the grounds Trump reopened are 123 miles SOUTHEAST of Cape Cod.

Lobster fishing is a day trip out before sunrise in dark. NO Lobster boat could or would make the 123-mile trip. 250-mile round trip.

What is killing the Lobster industry is Trump's Tariff wars with China and disputed waters between Canada and the U.S.

Watch the Lobster Wars on
AMAZON PRIME https://tinyurl.com/y58773wz


and YouTube

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

25. +1...

... thanks for reinforcing my point(s) I made above!

[usaf-vet]

33. You bet. The Idiot in the WH can even take the time to study and get the facts. This wasn't about

helping Lobster fisherman it was about trying to help Susan Collins she is in big trouble in the upcoming election.

She is really, really, really concerned.

Watch the documentary the real long-range problem is global warming. The waters to the south of Maine are to warm for the lobsters. At the current rate within 20 years Maine waters will be to warm and all the east coast lobsters will be Nova Scotia Canadian fish.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

38. I have read of that, too...

... also affecting lobster sizes as I recall.

[left-of-center2012]

24. But no money to help Maine lobster fishermen ?

[rwsanders]

27. But SOCIALISM?

[howardmappel]

31. But free market

What happened to the free market and the invisible hand? This is SOCIALISM AND IS SO WRONG. <sarcasm, but what about supporting small businesses in Democratic states.>

[JudyM]

32. Lemme guess, there's going to be a big party at Mar-a-Lose-o?

Follow the $hrimp...

[onetexan]

35. So who will the shrimp be going to eventually?

[Flaleftist]

37. The military has a lot of mouths to feed.

That would seem like a sensible and practical way to distribute it, among the many bases and ships. Of course, knowing this administration the answer probably isn't sensible or practical. There is probably a grift somewhere in this.

[cstanleytech]

36. I am unable to eat any shellfish due to a severe allergy so it wont bother me in the least if

the entire shellfish industry went under.
My mother if she was still around would be complaining though if this was a story about lobster as she loved lobster tails.