Read additional information about the trade petitions, including public copies of ASPA filings. Today, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) filed trade petitions seeking antidumping duties on imported frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia and countervailing duties on imported shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. The U.S. shrimp market has been overwhelmed by…

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Garret Graves (Louisiana) and Kathy Castor (Florida) introduced legislation to stop unsafe, illegally-produced shrimp from reaching consumers. Much of the shrimp that flood the U.S. market are foreign, farmed seafood packed with illegal antibiotics or are products of illegal fishing operations. These low-quality and illegally-sourced shrimp are sold at artificially low…

November 3, 2022, BILOXI, Mississippi – Wild American Shrimp®, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA)’s marketing program for wild-caught Gulf and South Atlantic Shrimp, has announced the winners of the 2022 Chef of the Year Awards: Chef Carl “Flavor” Stanton for “Hometown Chef,” Chefs Adam and Tommy Waller for “Influencer Chef,” and Chef Armando Vasquez for…

Nominations Must Be Submitted Online by Friday, October 21, 2022 BILOXI, Miss., Oct. 1, 2022 – Wild American Shrimp® and the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA),representing the wild-caught Gulf and South Atlantic shrimp industry, are calling for nominations for the 2022 Chef of the Year Awards. This year, the annual Chef of the Year Awards program…

Photo Courtesy of Nick Wallace   Exciting news from Wild American Shrimp! One of our very own Chef Advocates, Nick Wallace, will be competing in Season 19 of Bravo’s hit show Top Chef — Top Chef: Houston! Chef Nick will be competing with acclaimed Chefs from all over the country, bringing his signature style of…

The recent devastation caused by Hurricane Ida has left dozens of areas and thousands of people in Louisiana and beyond without electricity or even homes to call their own. There’s not a shrimp processor in the Gulf South that has not at one time or another been in the aftermath of a hurricane without power…

Wild American Shrimp Chef Advocate Austin Sumrall — Chef and Owner of White Pillars in Biloxi, Mississippi — was crowned this past weekend on Aug. 7, 2021 as the winner of the 2021 Great American Seafood Cook-Off! Chef Austin entered the competition for the first time to represent the state of Mississippi as one of…

Wild American Shrimp Chef Advocates Austin Sumrall and Tory McPhail have both been chosen to compete this year in the Great American Seafood Cookoff. Sumrall will represent Mississippi and McPhail will represent Montana. Sumrall is Chef and Owner of White Pillars in Biloxi, Mississippi. McPhail is the former Executive Chef at Commander’s Palace, New Orleans…

We recently shared the story linked here of how, in 2020, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) partnered up for a historic $25 million purchase of wild-caught American shrimp. In total, food banks in 190 U.S. cities received shrimp (as shown in the interactive map below), which were…

A drive-thru food donation organized by Feeding the Gulf Coast.   In 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) purchased $25.14 million of wild-caught domestic shrimp processed by small businesses and members of the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA). When USDA invited bids for its first-ever shrimp commodity purchase, the domestic shrimp industry heeded the…

October 30, 2020, BILOXI, Mississippi – Wild American Shrimp®, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA)’s marketing program for wild-caught Gulf and South Atlantic Shrimp, has named Chef Monte Sheffield, Chef/Owner of Palmer’s Restaurant Bar & Courtyard in San Marcos, Texas, as its 2020 Chef of the Year. Chef Sheffield will reign for the next year as…

Several American Shrimp Processors Association/Wild American Shrimp member companies are currently packaging and shipping delicious, wild-caught Gulf and South Atlantic shrimp destined for food banks and drive-thru food pantries across America. The shrimp are being provided through the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.  The orders are part of a $30 million purchase of wild-caught USA shrimp…