The Gulf Coast brown shrimp season opened earlier this month (July 15, 2017). So you might think that means Texas shrimp will be for sale abundantly around Greater Houston; however, some fear Texas shrimp will be more expensive and harder to find because of an immigration decision. Congress failed to renew the H-2B Returning Worker Program.
To learn more, we talk with Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson, who writes the situation could "create a windfall for foreign shrimpers...and damage the Texas economy.”