Release Date: 04/08/2008

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Secretary Robert Barham announced that the shrimp season in that portion of Louisiana offshore territorial waters south of the Inside/Outside Shrimp Line as described in R.S.56:495, from the eastern shore of the Atchafalaya River Ship Channel at Eugene Island as delineated by the Channel red buoy line to the U.S. Coast Guard navigational light off the northwest shore of Caillou Boca at 29 degrees 03 minutes 10 seconds north latitude and 90 degrees 50 minutes 27 seconds west longitude, will reopen to shrimping on April 15, 2008 at 12 noon.

According to the most recent trawl samples taken by LDWF Marine Fisheries Division biologists, small white shrimp, which have occupied portions of state outside waters from December through early April, are no longer present in the area to be opened.