Louisiana Shrimpers Consider Strike as Prices Plummet

By Tristan Baurick, The Times-Picayune, NOLA.com

HOUMA - Louisiana shrimpers vowed this week to go on strike if shrimp prices take yet another tumble. About 200 shrimpers gathered in Houma on Wednesday (Aug. 8) to vent their frustrations about foreign imports that have driven shrimp prices to levels not seen since the 1980s.