Ecuador is the second largest exporter to the U.S.A. Shrimp is an annual crop going from egg to egg in four to eight months. A female can produce up to a million eggs. It is extremely unlikely that one year's catch will affect next year's production. Production has been high the past two years in Galveston Bay and Louisiana while Corpus Christi Bay has had very poor production. Our shrimpers are not rapers of Corpus Christi Bay, nor do their numbers need to be reduced.
Climatic conditions are of overriding importance in determining the catch.
Our shrimpers need sympathy, not condemnation and more regulations. While I agree that parents are obligated to protect their children from harm and that most of them want to protect their children, I have to say that chaining them to anything is considered abuse. But chaining a teen-ager to a bed is outright abuse. I'm sorry, but slavery went out of style years ago. It's illegal, and just because parents are responsible for their children does not give them the right to enslave them.