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   Texas Observer (texasobserver@texasobserver.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:26:40 JST Texas Observer

   • Paula Levihn-Coon

   Farm-raised shrimp from India & Ecuador has flooded the U.S., jeopardizing the century-old Gulf shrimping industry. Our Fall Fellow Paula @levihncoon visited with the shrimpers of #Galveston bay to tell the story of a market in free-fall: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-shrimp-disaster-imports?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

   (📸 #Photography by Paula Levihn-Coon)

   #fishing #food #news #politics #USpol #workers #GulfCoast #environment #water

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     Willow (willow@stranger.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 04:26:46 JST Willow

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     • Paula Levihn-Coon

     @TexasObserver @levihncoon
     Seems they forgot to mention the part about the price of gulf shrimp sky-rocketing due to the enormous amount of pollution in the gulf, generated by big oil, that has decimated the shrimp population.