Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries to Hold Meeting Signaling Early Opening to 2015 White Shrimp Season
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Times-Picayune] By Todd Masson - July 21, 2015
The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission has scheduled a special meeting for Thursday to consider open dates for the 2015 autumn shrimp season. That means the season will likely open before the commission's next regularly scheduled meeting on Aug. 6.
At the commission's July meeting, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham had requested authority to open the season when department biologists told him white shrimp were nearing marketable sizes in Louisiana's marshes.
The commission, however, elected to maintain control over the fishery, and instructed the department to...
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