Last week, Louisiana Shrimp Association President Acey Cooper, Jr. submitted a letter in response to an opinion piece written by Tom Mazzetta, founder and CEO of Mazzetta Company, LLC.
The following letter is from Tom Mazzetta in response.
In my original op-ed, I opined that the NGO Oceana, whom I rarely agree with, got it right when they called out the Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery for having roughly 62 percent bycatch, one of the highest bycatch totals of any United States fishery.
