SeaD’s investigation of the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City led to public outrage when 4 out of 5 vendors there were found to have fraudulently served foreign shrimp.

When SeaD Consulting came for Gulf Shores’ National Shrimp Festival in October 2024, it wasn’t unprecedented. The month before, SeaD had delivered a critical report on the Louisiana Shrimp and ...

For decades, this had been a shrimp festival only. But from midcentury onward, the oil and gas industry - which installed the first successful offshore oil well 43 miles south of here in 1947 ...

He and three other SEAD colleagues, including Dr. Singh, were testing samples of 19 shrimp dishes served at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in a hotel conference room.

At the National Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama in October, they say they once again found that four out of five samples contained imported shrimp. It wasn’t just festivals: Testing ...

Sead Consulting, a Galveston, Texas, company, made headlines last year when it detected mostly foreign shrimp served at the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Morgan City. It announced Monday ...

A joint Louisiana Illuminator and WVUE-TV Fox 8 investigation into shrimp sold at festival and market vendors in the New Orleans area found most of the samples to be domestic.

The samples of shrimp were collected from nine vendors at an area seafood market in early November and from five vendors Oct. 6 at the Gretna Heritage Festival.

Festival-goers wait in line for shrimp dishes during Louisiana Shrimp Fest/ Shrimp Aid at the Broadside in New Orleans, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune) ...