A bill designed to support Coastal Georgia’s shrimp industry didn’t pass before the state legislature’s session ended earlier this month.
So, without immediate support from elected officials, some local shrimpers attending the annual Blessing of the Fleet ceremony in Darien over the weekend are now pinning their hopes for relief on President Donald Trump.
After years of his profession being undercut by lower-cost farmed shrimp from overseas, Capt. Wynn Gale, a fourth-generation commercial shrimper, said he hopes Trump’s proposed tariffs will “work out for us” by cutting off the influx of imports that have decimated the once prosperous industry.
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