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Regular Session, 2013
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 120
BY REPRESENTATIVE HARRISON
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To memorialize the Congress of the United States to study the causes, effects, prevention,
and treatment of early mortality syndrome in the national and international shrimp
industry and take all appropriate actions necessary to fully protect the shrimp
industry in Louisiana and other states from this disease.
WHEREAS, early mortality syndrome (EMS) has been identified in the shrimp
stocks in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand, causing large losses among the shrimp
farms in those countries; and
WHEREAS, EMS is characterized by mass mortalities during the first twenty to
thirty days of culture in growout ponds along with the clinical signs including slow growth,
corkscrew swimming, loose shells, and pale coloration; and
WHEREAS, affected shrimp consistently show an abnormal shrunken, small,
swollen, or discolored hepatopancreas resulting in mortality; and
WHEREAS, Congress should fully utilize and bring to bear all available means of
research and study to determine the causes, effects, prevention, and treatment of early
mortality syndrome in the shrimp industry and take all appropriate actions necessary to fully
protect the shrimp industry in Louisiana and other states from this disease; and
WHEREAS, throughout the Gulf of Mexico the shrimp industry in Louisiana and
other states is a multibillion dollar industry of vital importance to the economic well-being
of the region, and is still threatened by and suffering from the enormous impacts of recent
natural and manmade disasters.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the Congress of the United States to study the causes, effects, prevention, and
treatment of early mortality syndrome in the national and international shrimp industry and ENROLLEDHCR NO. 120
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take all appropriate actions necessary to fully protect the shrimp industry in Louisiana and
other states from this disease.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States of America and to each member of the Louisiana congressional delegation.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE