More seafood is harvested offshore and brought to land in Louisiana than any other state in the contiguous United States, according to the Louisiana Seafood Marketing and Promotion Board. Louisiana fishers harvest more than 1 million total pounds of seafood per year out of the 3.6 billion pounds landed per year across the country’s mainland. Louisiana’s offshore seafood catch is more than that of the next three top-producing states combined.
About 41% of seafood landed in the United States comes through the Gulf, and 71% of that seafood comes through Louisiana, according to the marketing organization.
Although most national attention has been on New Orleans in the aftermath of Ida, the hurricane’s impact to coastal fishing communities will ripple across the state and country.
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