Ecotourism is all about nature and community. During the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, Louisiana Sea Grant and the LSU AgCenter brainstormed ideas to keep the local seafood economy afloat. It started with the “Stay for the Seafood” video campaign, highlighting the seafood and culture of three major areas in the state of Louisiana. From there, the […]

Commercial fishermen, dock owners and processors will have the opportunity to learn about issues facing their industry at the Louisiana Fisheries Forward Summit, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at the Pontchartrain Center, 4545 Williams Blvd., Kenner. Admission is free, but advance registration is required for those wanting lunch. This expo is the state’s premier commercial fishing […]

What started out as catfish traps for extra cash in 1975 grew into a 100,000 square foot facility in the heart of Henderson. And the business is about to grow again with a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant. Guidry’s Catfish and Processing Inc – the largest catfish processing facility in the state – buys […]

Jessica Young has joined Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) as assistant to the executive director. Young received both an English bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northwest Missouri State University. She previously worked as a high school English teacher in her home state of Missouri before moving to Louisiana. Upon her arrival in Louisiana, she worked as […]

DeWitt Braud, recently retired from Louisiana State University, will be returning to Louisiana Sea Grant as the newest Sea Grant Scholar. He began working for LSU in 1978 in the Division of Engineering Research Remote Sensing and Image Processing Lab, which included two years at the NASA Earth Resources Lab in Slidell. He accepted a […]

Dan Petrolia, professor of agricultural economics at Mississippi State University, has been named Laborde Endowed Chair for Sea Grant Research and Technology Transfer at Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG). His appointment is from mid-January through the end of June. During this time, Petrolia will work on a project titled Identifying Economic Opportunities and Challenges for Commercial […]

Hannah Bellone has joined Louisiana Sea Grant (LSG) as the program’s new communications coordinator. Bellone received her Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology with a minor in creative writing from Louisiana State University. During her undergraduate years at LSU, she was employed as a student worker in Louisiana Sea Grant Communications. She comes to Sea […]

A project to help the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe (PACIT) develop nature-based solutions (NBS) to mitigate climate related hazards is one of ten grants recently funded by the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. In total, $1 million in grants were awarded. Matt Bethel, Louisiana Sea Grant’s associate executive director […]