Lack of Crawfish Peelers Due to H-2B Breakdown May Cost Half the Season's Revenue
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Advocate] By Mark Ballard - March 30, 2015
Going into what is supposed to be the biggest sales week of the crawfish season, processor Dexter Guillory, of Eunice, says he is nothing but worried.
One month into the peak season, during which the crawfish industry makes most of its money, an immigration kerfuffle has kept Guillory and most of the owners of the state’s dozen or so processors from hiring enough peelers.
Most of the workers come from Mexico and Central America. Without the peelers, the processors will stop buying as much crawfish from the fishermen.
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