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University snags $250K state grant to expand seafood industry study
Fri, 04/26/2019 - 10:05am
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser joined UL Lafayette administrators to announce a $250,000 grant from the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board on April 25. The funding will enable University researchers to examine the seafood supply chain in seven coastal parishes – Cameron, Terrebonne, Lafourche, Plaquemines, Jefferson, Orleans and St. Bernard.
Last year, the University secured a $250,000 Rural Business Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct a similar study in Vermilion, Iberia and St. Mary parishes. That study ends July 1.
Dr. Geoff Stewart, an associate professor of marketing in the B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration, is lead investigator for the project. Like the previous study, it is a collaboration with the Washington, D.C.-based Meridian Institute.
Nungesser, who oversees the seafood promotion board, called the latest grant to UL Lafayette “money well spent as we continue to identify what the seafood industry needs and where it is going.”
Photo caption: From left are Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, Dr. Carrie Castille, state director, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president; and Dr. Jaimie Hebert, University provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. The four participated in a signing ceremony and announcement on April 25, 2019 of a $250,000 state grant the University received to examine the seafood supply chain in seven coastal Louisiana parishes. (Photo credit: Rachel Keyes / University of Louisiana at Lafayette)