In years to come, Hurricane Katrina might be viewed as what destroyed the US wild-caught shrimp industry.

However, as columnist CHARLES WOODHOUSE writes in this start to our annual focus on shrimp, the industry was already doing a good job at creating its own demise before an ill wind blew in

Conventional wisdom has it that Hurricane Katrina was one of those major events which will shape the future of our business. In my view Hurricane Katrina actually changed nothing, it merely accelerated the inevitable changes which were already preordained for the shrimp industry.

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