The state’s seafood industry is hurting with restaurant business taking a dive because of COVID-19. Now, they are getting help in offloading their catch direct to consumers with the help of the marketing tool LouisianaDirectSeafood.com. LSU AgCenter coastal agent Rusty Gaude says they’ve set up the website to connect the fishermen with those looking buy the catch.
“You’re speaking either with the harvester or some member of his family and there you can make your negotiations for your prices, how you are going to pick it up, when they are going to be in with that catch,” said Gaude.
Gaude says the website posts from harvesters detail what they’ve caught, prioritizing the post order by the freshest catch.
“These messages are chronologically sequenced so that the newest message is the top message. As you go through time, the older messages get buried,” said Gaude.
With the pipeline to restaurants being in a state of uncertainty, Gaude says this is a vital lifeline for the seafood industry.
“These family operations depend upon these direct sales to get them through this hard time,” said Gaude.
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