Seafood Dealers in Alabama Use Grant Money to Process Shellfish Waste

Posted On: November 25, 2009

Officials say a group of seafood dealers in the Bayou La Batre, Alabama area plan to use a $3.2 million federal grant to build a seafood byproduct processing plant. The Gulf Coast Agriculture and Seafood Cooperative’s 23 crab and shrimp processors haven’t had a local place to dispose of crab and shrimp shells since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The U.S. Commerce Department said in a statement Friday that the grant will pay for an environmentally friendly 12,700-square- foot building to process the waste locally.

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