A boat-to-table seafood marketing project is expanding to two areas in southeast Louisiana, with plans for the southwest.
Boat captains post arrival times and their catch on the Internet. People can place orders before the boat gets in under a program started in 2010 at the Port of Delcambre.
“The goal was to provide a means of economic survival for the struggling owners of commercial fishing operations,” said Thomas Hymel, LSU AgCenter seafood project director. “When a shrimp boat lands at the port of Delcambre, the shrimp are now sold in a few hours where it used to take days.”
Louisiana Direct Seafood started as a joint effort of the AgCenter, Louisiana Sea Grant, the Twin Parish Port Commission and Iberia Industrial Development Foundation. It has worked so well that the AgCenter and Louisiana Sea Grant got a $560,000 grant from the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission to add three more areas, Hymel said.
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