Louisiana processors urged to focus on high-quality seafood production akin to Alaska
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Houma Today] by Xerxes Wilson - August 15, 2014
State fisheries officials have teamed with the LSU Sea Grant College Program to educate Louisiana commercial fisheries into a new era of higher profitability.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and program organizers recently announced the Fisheries Forward program, a new effort to foster harvesting and handling practices that help make the state’s catch the highest quality possible on the market.
Thomas Hymel, LSU AgCenter and Sea Grant agent involved with the program’s creation, said the first aim is to promote practices that hinder deviation from the high-quality catch making it to the dock...
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