However, unless you know a shrimper or a friend of a shrimper, many times it’s hard to make the connection. That’s what Louisiana Direct Seafood is all about. Hooking up consumers directly with seafood producers and first buyers, LouisianaDirectSeafood.com facilitates the buying and selling of fresh, quality, premium Louisiana seafood.

Commercial fishermen have sold a portion of their fresh seafood products directly to consumers probably for as long as they’ve made their catches. But, in the past, most of this is primarily to family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances. More recently though, some fishermen have used direct sales to help get a better price for their premium products, thus increasing their profits and ability to remain viable.

Enter today’s advanced electronic, communication and Internet-enabled age. Combine these new technologies with the need for seafood producers to connect with seafood consumers, and what you get is modern direct seafood marketing.

In fact, the first direct seafood marketing program in Louisiana, Delcambre Direct, has proven to be so popular and successful that it has been expanded to cover the entire state and will probably expand, eventually, throughout the entire Gulf region.

Programs such as Louisiana Direct Seafood are enabling area commercial fishermen, dealers and people from all across the state, and even around the country, to do just that: get connected. Consumers are able to contact fishermen and first buyers directly to buy fresh shrimp and other seafood when it arrives at the docks.

What is really great about direct marketing is that it enables local fishermen and dealers to realize greater profits by selling their premium products at higher prices. This helps to ensure that they can continue to operate their businesses at a reasonable profit. This, in turn, helps all those involved in the seafood industry, from the docks to the processors to the wholesalers and everyone in-between, by ensuring that a sufficient number of seafood harvesters are available to continue to provide sufficient quantities of quality seafood products.

In other words, by keeping fishermen in business all of the other industries dependent upon the fisheries stay in business also.

Savvy consumers can also capitalize on this by obtaining quality, fresh seafood products directly from the fishermen and dealers at reasonable prices. This is a win-win situation all around.

Louisiana Direct Seafood is here, and with it LaTer Direct Seafood. Lafourche and Terrebonne area fishermen and dealers now have an online network available to them at LaTerDirectSeafood.com. This program facilitates electronically “hooking-up” local seafood producers and dealers with consumers throughout the area and beyond.

If you need to buy or sell some fresh shrimp or any other Louisiana seafood, just go to LouisianaDirectSeafood.com, click into the area you’re looking to do business in and make the connection.

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