Southern Shrimp Alliance

09/03/2026

🇺🇸🦐Did you see our post on NOAA Fisheries' preliminary May 2026 landings data? If so, watch this...

09/02/2026

🦐 Shrimp & the Danger Zone ✈️
No, Maverick—we’re not talking about that Danger Zone. 😎
When it comes to seafood safety, the Danger Zone is between 40°F and 140°F, where bacteria can grow rapidly.
That means keeping your shrimp cold is kind of a big deal:
❄️ Keep cold shrimp at 40°F or below.
⏱️ Don’t leave seafood at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
☀️ If it’s hotter than 90°F outside, that drops to just 1 hour.
Here’s a tip: Buy it frozen. Unless you are buying from small boats, the shrimp on ice in a store is pre-thawed. Always use shrimp within 48 hours if cold thawing or immediately if thawed in a few minutes under running water.
When it comes to food safety, you don’t want to be flying into the Danger Zone. ✈️😉

09/02/2026

Commerce just raised antidumping duties on Indian shrimp.

Final dumping margins increased to as much as 7.01%, significantly above the rates preliminarily announced in May—and far above the 1.35% cash deposit rate under which most Indian shrimp exporters were shipping during the review period.

The impact could be substantial: importers of Indian shrimp may owe more than $100 million in additional antidumping duties on shrimp already imported into the United States.

As SSA Executive Director Blake Price explained, these duties cannot undo the harm dumped shrimp caused American fishermen—but they can help limit the Indian shrimp industry's ability to cause further harm.

🦐 Read SSA’s full News Alert for the numbers and what today’s Commerce decision means for the U.S. shrimp industry.

🔗 Link in comments.

09/02/2026

🦐 New preliminary NOAA Fisheries data show U.S. shrimp landings from January-May 2026 increased and dockside prices rebounded from the devastating 2023–2024 collapse.

But high fuel costs, global oversupply, unfair trade, and a lack of marketplace transparency continue to put enormous pressure on the U.S. shrimp industry.

The data shows the recovery has started. But the fight for a fair, transparent, and competitive market isn’t over.

EDIT: See a follow-up video at https://www.facebook.com/reel/1103695342029604

🔗 Read the full SSA News Alert — link in comments.

09/02/2026

August brought some much-needed wins for America’s shrimp industry. 🦐

From trade enforcement and USDA purchases to labeling reform and new testing results, here’s what moved the needle for U.S. shrimpers this month.

🎥 Catch up on the August 2026 recap.

09/01/2026

A major step forward in the fight against shrimp trade fraud. 🦐

The U.S. House has passed the bipartisan PAIL Act, legislation that would give the Department of Justice dedicated resources to prosecute trade crimes—including schemes used to evade antidumping duties and skirt U.S. food safety protections.

For an industry that has fought fraudulent shrimp imports for decades, this matters.

🔗 Read the full SSA News Alert at the link in the comments.

08/31/2026

September is Food Safety Education Month 🦐🧊
When it comes to food safety, think beyond the kitchen. From the boat → processor → store – every step matters.
Throughout September, we’ll be talking about safe handling, storage, thawing and preparation—but we’ll also be digging into another important part of the food safety conversation: how is the shrimp raised and handled before it reaches retailers.
U.S. wild-caught shrimp grows naturally and operates under strict food-safety standards. Facilities are subject to inspections and testing. Yet, more than 90% of shrimp are imported and subject to significantly less oversight. Despite less than 1% of imported shrimp being tested, FDA testing continues to detect banned antibiotics in farm-raised shrimp from large shrimp producing countries, such as India, Indonesia and Vietnam.
That’s one more reason why knowing where your shrimp comes from matters. 🦐
This month, follow along as we break down shrimp food safety from the producer to your plate.
Know your shrimp. Know its origin. Keep it wild.

08/30/2026

Shrimp is America’s favorite seafood and we want consumers to get their fill of the good stuff. When we talk about tariffs on shrimp and stronger enforcement of our laws, we are trying to end the race to the bottom where the most ethical producers are replaced with those with problematic supply chains.

Next week, the House will consider the PAIL Act, which equips federal prosecutors to go after the trade criminals who've cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

08/26/2026

We asked SeaD Consulting to retest shrimp dishes from 22 restaurants in Baton Rouge.

🎉Good news: The majority of sampled Baton Rouge restaurants–73% (16 of 22)--used U.S. wild-caught shrimp.

😡Bad news: 100% of the restaurants serving imported shrimp were not in compliance with state labeling laws. Half explicitly claimed the product was U.S. wild-caught shrimp despite signage.

💰The cost: SeaD Consulting estimates imported/farmed shrimp mislabeled as U.S. wild-caught amount to a $225K daily loss to Louisiana fishermen. And with unfairly traded shrimp reaching record low prices, those are dollars American shrimpers need to stay in business.

We can and must do better. Enforce transparency laws.

08/24/2026

Reminder: We are looking for fresh videos of the U.S. shrimp industry at work. Get an SSA hat when you share content that we use.

Your footage could help tell the story of America's shrimpers.
If we use your submitted video in one of our social media posts, we'll send you an SSA hat as our way of saying thanks.
We want to see:
🦐Working shrimp boats
🦐Dockside life
🦐Beautiful sunrises and sunsets
🦐Sorting shrimp
🦐Family traditions
🦐Life on the water
🦐Behind-the-scenes moments
Every clip helps tell the story of U.S. wild-caught shrimp.
Submit videos here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3PLl3uoJt6WG6CG6mQf2_B3fw8a4MTFFw8MYk5iG1nFWPzg/viewform?usp=header