(10 Apr 2025)
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Palacios, Texas – 9 April 2025
1. Wide, shrimp boat Miss Kelsey, owned by Craig Wallis of W&W Dock, is docked in Palacios, Texas
2. Various of broodstock shrimp at the Bowers shrimp hatchery in Palacio, Texas
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Bowers, Bowers Shrimp Farm Owner:
"It’s been tough the last several years that we’ve tried to fight through this. We’ve had several years where we just break even, several years we’ve lost money. And we’ve had to do whatever we have to do to make it work. Cutting people off, laying people off, or reduce hours or reduce wages and survive whatever we can do to survive."
4. Various shrimp are prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Garcia, Quality Seafoods manager:
"We’re American businesses. Our whole town thrives off the shrimping industry. So if he’s truly American first, them tariffs will stick. I know they talked about a pause for 90 days, but they say that there’s still a baseline 10% tariff for all countries. That 10% will go a long way to helping us be profitable again."
6. Mid of shrimp prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant.
7. Mid of packaged shrimp stacked and transferred into the cold room for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant
8. Tracking shot of lines on fishing boat
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Wallis, W&W Dock owner:
"I don’t think we’re gonna see a real big boom, no. I think it’s gonna be slow, but anything to the positive end would be a lot better than what we’ve been doing in the past two years. It can’t continue to decline. We’re hanging on here because a little bit more conservative. There’s a lot of people going out of the business, have already gone out of business, because they’re one major breakdown away from being out of business."
10. Various shrimps are prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Bowers, Bowers Shrimp Farm Owner:
"The worst thing that can happen is that they go in there, and then everybody amps up, and then they remove the tariffs, and then also we get all the cheap imports again, and it’s gonna put a big strain on our business."
12. Various shrimps are prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Garcia, Quality Seafoods manager:
"The last year or so, things have started ticking up, but we really needed something to help us, you know, propel us back into profitability, and it looks like these Trump tariffs are going to be able to do that."
14. Various of boats at the dock
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Reed Bowers, Bowers Shrimp Farm Owner:
"I’m mostly worried about what happens in four years. You know, then, do they go away? You know, then if it goes away and I’ve amped up my business and then the tariffs go away, then it’s going to make it really tough to survive."
16. Mid of a boat docked
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Craig Wallis, W&W Dock owner:
"Anything will help us on any type of tariff that we’re watching that, but hopefully, it gets relieved on a lot of the products that we use coming across that it obviously drops back because we checked the other day that we used a trawl cable, and it’s gone up 25 percent when all this announcement was made a few weeks ago, so hopefully, it’ll drop back another 10 percent and pass it on to us, don’t just go up and stay up."
18. Various shrimp are cooked in a saucepan
19. Closeup on the face
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Phan Tran, Trans Restaurant Owner:
21. Mid shrimp are cooked in a saucepan
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