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What is the White Boot Brigade
The White Boot Brigade is a traveling shrimpers road show, hell-bent on sustainable harvests, cultural preservation, and business innovation. It is organized by marketumbrella.org.
For decades, the families who harvest these wild crustaceans have ridden the waves of a threatened domestic industry — global competition, high fuel costs, and a rigid post-harvesting regime. As a result, they have watched their livelihoods shrink. And yet, consumer demand for shrimp increases!
How do we get this product to you? Working with travel partners and underwriters, we stage seasonal campaigns to new markets. The purpose of these campaigns is to connect producer to consumer, educate consumers about the unique flavor and texture of this wild delicacy, and to retool the commercial fishers to embrace boutique methods in harvest, post-harvest, and customer service stages of their business.
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Thursday, May 13th. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lisa Jackson, addressed questions about dispersants being used in efforts to contain the Gulf spill during a conference call. Read the notes from a National Resources Defense Council scientist on the call.
It was just beginning to feel as though the tide was turning here in New Orleans. Approaching Katrina plus five, we've been licking our wounds, rekindling communities battered by nature, engineering failures, and syrupy slow government assistance. Once again, our region is plunged into ecological uncertainty. Eleven workers died in the explosion on the BP deepwater oil platform named Horizon, sending a seemingly endless spew of oil from the Gulf's floor and towards the fragile Gulf Coast only days before the scheduled beginning of the spring brown shrimp season.
The White boot Brigade is back on the march! A unique coalition of artists, community groups, churches and business owners will celebrate Louisiana shrimpers Saturday, December 13th from 12:00-3:00 pm at Sankofa Marketplace, a monthly event that helps spur restoration, community development and economic growth in the Lower 9th Ward.
