The rest of the time, the marketers gabbed about this year's "winners" over wine and shrimp.

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Given that the legal action is unlikely to succeed, and that the market share of American shrimp fishermen is so low, they should see this as a marketing opportunity, he said.

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The political uncertainty in Thailand has depressed the nation's stock market, but CLSA expects that earnings of Union Frozen, a tuna and shrimp processor, will rise as much as 10% this year on improving sales and margins.

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But it is widely accepted by scientists studying the crayfish invasion that this all started when an Egyptian businessman attempted to expand his fish farm industry by investing in shrimp.

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So while their processor may not be seeing a lessening in the output based on what they had caught previous to this, obviously, because a huge portion of the Gulf is closed to commercial fishing, more shrimp is not coming in, right?

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Also inspired by the beauty and bounty of this region are chef Andrew Sutton's creative menus at Auberge de Soleil, where diners find shrimp cocktail or a tomato gazpacho salad for their pleasure ( 77K AIFF sound or 77K WAV sound).

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Atlantans and visitors flock to this rustic, subway-tiled post-industrial space for Southern favourites such as peel-and-eat shrimp, Georgia trout and fried clams, plus classics like iced oysters, lobster rolls, hickory-roasted fish or she-crab soup.

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