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Sandy Nguyen has strong opinions about where the best shrimp in the US is produced.

A second-generation shrimper in New Orleans, Nguyen maintains our [Louisiana] shrimp tastes better than Florida shrimp or Mississippi shrimp or Texas shrimp". Her family moved to the Gulf coast from Vietnam during the Jimmy Carter administration, and her dad, like many such immigrants to the area, worked as a fisher. The business gave Nguyen a front-row seat to one of the nation's most abundant sources of seafood.