Last week, the Port of Brownsville and shrimping industry officials hosted a “Blessing of the Fleet” — an annual tradition ...

Federal waters, spanning from nine to 200 nautical miles offshore, will open simultaneously with state waters.

Fishermen said the deluge of imported, farm-raised shrimp has driven down the price of Gulf shrimp so much that it's no longer worth it to go out on the water.

Sample genetic testing at last month's Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival in Morgan City revealed that only one of the five vendors sampled was actually serving shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico.

Specifically, 39% of Gulf White Shrimp served was imported, despite being marketed as gulf-caught. The issue was even more egregious with Royal Red Shrimp: 92% of the restaurants claiming to serve the ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. -- New research shows some of the shrimp that's eaten in Gulf Coast restaurants don’t actually come from the gulf.

A pile of freshly-caught Gulf of Mexico shrimp lays on a table on fisherman Donald Dardar's boat floating just south of Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana. This story was originally published by ...

Restaurants throughout the Gulf Coast are serving imported shrimp but telling their customers they're feasting on fresh crustaceans fished in the Gulf of Mexico, a series of new studies found ...

But you can find Gulf Coast shrimp if you know where to look. "Fresh shrimp is always awesome," Brett Otteman, the general manager of Katie’s Seafood House on Pier 19 in Galveston, said.

Sample genetic testing at last month's Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival in Morgan City revealed that only one of the five vendors sampled was actually serving shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico.