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New Threat Looms for Gulf Seafood as Waters Reopen

(Aug. 2) -- Gulf seafood is safe to eat. With the well capped and the much-dissected static kill set to start, that's the message the Food and Drug Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have stressed in recent statements. First lady Michelle Obama and even BP executive Doug Suttles have...

Gulf Fishermen Struggling Long Before BP Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS (July 15) -- The BP oil spill may have put the plight of Gulf of Mexico fishermen in the national spotlight, but they've been struggling for years. All the damage done in the past few months is just the latest in a long series of challenges faced by the industry. "To put it bluntly," Henry Poynot, who has...

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03/22/12 Local seafood makes âIdol' appearance Source: Houma Today - Houma LA
When Westlake native and "American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet said on national television that he was homesick for Louisiana cooking, local seafood-industry representatives sprang into action.
Mike Voisin, CEO of Motivatit Seafood processors in Houma, called Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, and said, "You're not going to believe what I'm watching."
The seafood board teamed up with the Lieutenant Governor's Office and sent 60 pounds of boiled Louisiana crawfish from Randol's Restaurant in Lafayette to the Lake Charles-area resident who is among those participating in the popular televised singing competition.
The crawfish was brought on stage during the show, and Ledet taught host Ryan Seacrest how to peel it.
"When the window of opportunity opens like that, you've got to jump through it. And the timing couldn't have been better: right in the middle of crawfish season," Smith said.