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Industry Leader Sees Seafood Board Benefiting Gulf Coastal States
As seafood consumers crave more local catch, Sysco Louisiana Foods is providing restaurants and markets an ever-increasing variety. Photo: Sysco Louisiana Foods by Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood News As...
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Barataria Museum and Wetland Trace Opens in Jean Laftitte
The ribbon is cut to the history and intrigue of Jean Lafitte and the town named after him; both are captured in the newly unveiled Barataria Museum and Wetland Trace Museum. Photo: Paul Christiansen...
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CNN: Empty Nets in Louisiana Three Years after the Spill
Photo: John Nowak/CNN by Matt Smith/CNN Yscloskey, Louisiana – On his dock along the banks of Bayou Yscloskey, Darren Stander makes the pelicans dance. More than a dozen of the birds have landed or...
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Imports and Rising Costs Concerns For Seafood Board’s Keith Watts
Competition from imports and the rising costs of doing business are two pressures facing Louisiana crabbers, said Keith Watts heading out to tend his crab traps on Lake Pontchartrain. Photo: Ed...
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Far From Home in Louisiana’s Crawfish Fields – An Immigrant Worker’s Story
Ruben and his daughter Maria Hernandez rise early each morning, usually around 6 am. By 7 am they are in the fields prepping the harvest boats for the day. Photo: Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood News by Ed...
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NOLA.com: Save Our Lake Director Concerned about Crab Numbers in Pontchartrain
Crabbing in Lake Pontchartrain and its surrounding waterways is typically a productive recreational and commercial activity, but crab numbers were off last year, and it looks like they may be down...
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Alan Gibson Wants Seafood Board Moving Forward Toward Common Purpose
As president of Tideland Seafood Company, Inc. in Dulac, Alan Gibson (holding pen) is one of only two returning members of the previous Board. Photo: Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood News by Susan...
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Louisiana Spring Shrimp Season Set To Open
from NOLA.com and Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission The second-coldest spring in the last century has resulted in brown shrimp growing more slowly than the U.S. economy. As a result the...
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Eleven Chefs Sharpen Knives and Skills in Pursuit of “King of Louisiana...
This is the second consecative year a chef from Wine Country Bistro & Bottle Shop in Shreveport will compete. Last year Chef Anthony Felan (right) rushes to deliver his dish to judges. Photo:...
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Vermilion Bay Sweet White Shrimp Gumbo Pack First Louisiana Certified Wild...
To meet an ever-increasing demand for fresh, quality gumbo-sized shrimp, the Port of Delcambre and Delcambre Direct Seafood program have introduced the first product in the state carrying the...
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WVUE Fox 8: Shrimp Season Begins
by Carolyn Scofield/ WVUE There’s a frenzy of activity around David Chauvin’s Seafood in Dulac. Boats are headed out, others are coming in, all in the search for shrimp. “We probably unloaded about...
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Chef John Folse Chosen as New Louisiana Seafood Board Chairman
No stranger to headlines, Cher John Folse has been a strong voice for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board. Photo: Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood News by Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood New...
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North Shore Crabber Sings the Pontchartrain Blues
A native of Ponchatoula, Laramie Hill is counting down the days until he pulls his crap traps and packs his belongings to head off to Iowa where he will work in the construction industry with his...
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Associated Press: A Taste of the South Heads North
The land of scrapple and chipped ham is starting to get a taste for jambalaya and boudin. Photo: Associated Press by Genaro C. Armas/Associated Press The land of scrapple and chipped ham is starting to...
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Wild Caught Catfish Processing Plant & Education On Sherbin Collette’s...
Top on Sherbin Collette’s agenda of recommendations for the board: resuscitate the wild catfish industry in Louisiana by putting fishermen back to work catching the wild-caught fish. Photo: Ed...
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Chef Cody Carroll Crowned King of Louisiana Seafood
“How wonderful it is for Louisiana Seafood to have another husband and wife team win the cook-off for a second year in a row,” said Ewell Smith, the Seafood Board’s executive director. Chef Cody...
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The Aristocratic Louisiana Oyster
Jules Melancon raises one of the unique oyster cages designed especially for the Caminada Bay oyster farm project. Photo: Jim Gossen/Caminada Bay Oyster Farm by Ed Lallo/Louisiana Seafood News The new...
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“Oyster Experience” Key for Board Member Sal Sunseri
And for the second time in his career, Sunseri, vice president of the family-owned P&J Oyster Company, brings this diverse industry expertise to the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board....
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Byron Despaux Brings Experienced Perspective to Seafood Board
“All of my life, I have been a commercial fisherman and boat owner,” said Byron Despaux. “In the good times and bad, I’ve seen it all. I understand the changes in the fishing industry and the...
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TheAdvocate.com: Seafood King- New Roads Chef Takes State Cook-off Honor
Chef de Cuisine Samantha Carroll laughs as her husband Cody is crowned the new “King of Louisiana Seafood” by last years winner Keith and Neely Frentz. Photo: Matthew Hinton/ The Advocate by BY...
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