Aug. 2, 2012, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission announced the fall inshore shrimp season will open at 6 a.m. on Monday, August 13, 2012, in state inside waters from the Atchafalaya River and Atchafalaya River Ship Channel westward to the Louisiana/Texas state line. State inside waters from the Atchafalaya River eastward to the Mississippi/Louisiana state line will open to shrimping 12 hours later, at 6 p.m.
Preliminary Louisiana shrimp landings statistics provided by NOAA Fisheries Service indicate that approximately 21.8 million pounds of shrimp (all species combined/heads-off weight) were landed in Louisiana from January through June 2012
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