(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. Tracking shot of lines on fishing boat
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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. Mid of shrimps vacuumed and sealed.
5. Various shrimps are prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant.
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6. 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."
Mid of broodstock shrimp at the Bowers shrimp hatchery in Palacio, Texas.
7. Wide of shrimps prepared for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant.
8. Mid of packaged shrimp stacked and transferred into the cold room for shipping at the Bowers Shrimp Processing plant.
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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 of boats at the dock
11. Mid of broodstock shrimp in tanks at the Bowers shrimp hatchery.
12. 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."
13. Mid shrimp are cooked in a saucepan
14. Mid of Phan is seen cooking in the kitchen
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15. SOUNDBITE (English) Phan Tran, Trans Restaurant Owner:
"We try to get everything local and fresh here with all our people. We have everything here in town. It’s literally our backyard with all the shrimp boats and stuff like that, so it’s like a no-brainer. Where else would you want to get shrimp when we have everything sourced here for us right in our backyard."
16. Mid shrimp are cooked in a saucepan
STORYLINE:
While American consumers and markets wonder and worry about President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs, there’s one group cheering him: Gulf coast shrimpers.
They hope he’ll prop up their sinking business:
American shrimpers have been hammered in recent years by cheap imports flooding the U.S. market and restaurants, driving down prices to the point that profits are razor thin or shrimpers are losing money and struggling to stay afloat.
Tariffs, they hope, could level the playing field and help their businesses not just survive but thrive.
More than 90% of shrimp consumed in the U.S. is imported, according to the alliance.
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