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BILOXI, Miss., July 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- For the commercial wild-caught shrimp industry in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s business as usual. In spite of reports coming out of the Gulf of...

NEW ORLEANS, July 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Members of the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) participated in an industry summit on July 9, 2019 at the U.S. Customs House in New...

WASHINGTON, July 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Richard...

WASHINGTON, May 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Dr. David Veal, executive director of the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA), testified before officials from the U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON, May 02, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) voted unanimously to support the domestic shrimp industry’s request to extend the antidumping...

WASHINGTON, April 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On April 18th President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order to strengthen the Buy America component of the U.S. government’s procurement...

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 03, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paul Piazza & Son, Inc. is pleased to announce that well known domestic shrimp industry veteran John W. Appelbaum has joined the Sourcing and...

BILOXI, Miss., Dec. 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Shrimp Processors Association applauds the work in the AP investigative article this week about slave-peeled shrimp from Thailand being...

BILOXI, Miss., May 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Members of the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA), who account for the majority of domestic, U.S. production of warm-water shrimp from Gulf...

BILOXI, Miss., Jan. 23, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) supports a new food safety bill introduced Tuesday in the Senate: Imported Seafood Safety Standards...