20% of Texas Shrimp Fleet Stuck in Port Due to Bad Congressional Immigration Decisions
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [HOUSTON CHRONICLE] By Chris Tomlinson - July 17, 2017
Texas shrimp will be harder to find and cost more because of an ignorant immigration decision designed to appease conservative voters misinformed about our economy's reliance on foreign labor.
This will create a windfall for foreign shrimpers, who will gladly take market share from local boats and damage the Texas economy.
The Gulf Coast brown shrimp season opens Saturday, but 20 percent of the Brownsville-Port Isabel fleet will not leave port because of a crew shortage, according to Andrea Hance, executive director of the Texas Shrimp Association. Almost every boat along the ...
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