By Sable LeFrere/Staff Writer
Where Gulf seafood comes from and how it’s harvested is becoming less of a mystery.
Mike Voisin, owner of Motivatit Seafood in Houma, was one of the first to get interested in the new program. Photo: Louisiana Seafood News
A new seafood tracking program called Gulf Seafood Trace has been put in place this year in response to the 2010 BP oil spill that scared many people about eating Gulf seafood.
The program tracks Gulf seafood through traceability software that local seafood processors can register to use. It was created after the oil spill by the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission.
Mike Voisin, owner of Motivatit Seafood in Houma, owns one of three Houma companies that are part of the program. The others are Jensen Tuna and Nichole’s Seafood.
Voisin was one of the first to get interested.
“I was working with (the fisheries commission) on an advisory panel to help them to set up the program, and then to participate was just natural.”
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