ENROLLED
2024 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 9
BY REPRESENTATIVES KERNER, COATES, DEWITT, TRAVIS JOHNSON,
LACOMBE, JACOB LANDRY, MACK, ORGERON, RISER, STAGNI, AND
ZERINGUE AND SENATOR MIGUEZ
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to impose
a quota or tariff on imported shrimp, crab meat, and crawfish and to enact a buy plan
for domestic shrimp, crab meat, and crawfish directly from domestic commercial
fishermen.
WHEREAS, the domestic fishing industry has faced severe hardships, such as
Hurricane Ida and other natural disasters, repeated openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway,
unfair trade practices, illegal chemicals, rising inflation, gas prices, and supply chain issues;
and
WHEREAS, in October of 2022, United States Congressman Garret Graves
announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchased up to
twenty-five million dollars of Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic wild caught shrimp; and
WHEREAS, Section 32 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act authorizes the USDA to
purchase domestic shrimp; and
WHEREAS, purchases such as this will help provide relief to Louisiana's shrimp
industry; and
WHEREAS, Louisiana's seafood industry is the largest supplier in the country and
the main economic driver in coastal areas; and
WHEREAS, more relief is necessary for the Louisiana seafood industry to compete
with foreign importers; and
WHEREAS, strategies to ensure that domestic commercial fishermen are able to sell
their products are necessary for the continued success of the Louisiana seafood industry; and
WHEREAS, plans to buy shrimp directly from domestic commercial shrimp
fishermen are of vital importance to ensure the success of coastal communities that rely
heavily on this industry.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to impose a
quota or tariff on imported shrimp, crab meat, and crawfish and to enact a buy plan for
domestic shrimp, crab meat, and crawfish directly from domestic commercial fishermen.
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 REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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