Listen the only thing i relate to shrimp .......is the forrest gump movie .....well there are coconut shrimp ......BBQ shrimp.....boiled shrimp .......curry shrimp ......and on and on ........if you saw the movie .....well i hate shrimp....... they look like cockroach they are referred to as the cockroach of the ocean ...they are bottom feeders of the sea .......and lobster...too .....it is overpriced and shitty food ....... i do not know what people see in crustaceans .........however only 2% of the total planet has gourmet taste buds ......the rest have gourmand taste buds .......and they cannot tell anything about food ....the restaurant business is so dishonest......look at #john taffer's bar rescue look at the state of all bars and suchlike always drugs thieving ...... over pouring money getting wasted ........ and usually the staff........ do not give a flying fuck about the bar ......... and over pour all the time ......we all know a girl will over pour for more tips ......and dumb guys ....... think the bartender wants to fuck him ....... they are only in it for the cash .....i use to be a bartender...... its a skeevy fucking job ......but if you want degeneration ....... its there .....nothing get going till after midnight...... that is when it is bad .....however ....... fake shrimp the average diner...... will never know .......whether they are eating fake or local shrimp how can they tell ........they can't ......... that is why they are doing it .........
Shrimp fraud' rampant at many Gulf Coast restaurants, new studies find
Restaurants throughout the Gulf Coast are serving imported shrimp but telling their customers they're feasting on fresh crustaceans fished in the Gulf of Mexico, a series of new studies found.
SeaD Consulting, a food safety technology company, tested shrimp from randomly chosen restaurants in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Biloxi, Mississippi; Galveston, Texas; and Tampa Bay, Florida. Researchers found a significant number of the restaurants were passing off their shrimp as locally sourced, even though they were grown on foreign farms and imported to the U.S.
The cities with the highest "shrimp fraud rate" were Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg, Florida, at 96%, according to SeaD Consulting. Only two of the 44 restaurants sampled were serving authentic shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico, a study found.
The tests in other cities yielded similar results. In Biloxi, 82% of the restaurants "were defrauding consumers about what they were buying," SeaD said. In Galveston, 59% of the 44 restaurants it sampled served imported shrimp while claiming they were caught locally. In Baton Rouge, researchers sampled menu items at 24 restaurants and found nearly 30% – more than 1 in 4 – were misrepresented.
“Consumers come to the coast expecting the finest, freshest Gulf seafood, but what they’re being served often falls far short of that,” said Erin Williams, chief operations officer of SeaD Consulting. “This isn’t just about mislabeling; it’s about eroding consumer trust, undercutting local businesses, and threatening the livelihood of hardworking Gulf shrimpers.”
As restaurants deceive customers, shrimpers are struggling to compete
The consulting company behind the research says the rampant misrepresentation hurts not only customers – who are put at higher risk of consuming tainted food – but also harms local fishermen struggling to compete with the low cost of imported shrimp from countries like India, Vietnam and Ecuador.
About 90% of shrimp consumed in the United States is imported, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
John Williams, the executive director of the Southern Shrimp Alliance, a Florida-based advocacy group that represents shrimpers in multiple states, said in a statement that “Family-owned shrimp businesses operating out of the Port of Tampa are struggling to survive while local restaurants bamboozle customers into thinking locally caught shrimp are being served."