Mr. Speaker. I represent a district in south Mississippi where generation of hardworking American and immigrant families have invested their lives in the ups and downs of the shrimping industry. They spend many days and nights working and sleeping in the salty air on the waters of the Mississippi Sound and Gulf of Mexico. in hopes of a bountiful harvest of what once was the cash crop on the gulf coast. When weather and sea conditions bring them poor yields. they tighten their belts. and of course when the yields are high. they live better. Conditions. economic and otherwise. have brought only lean years in recent years.
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