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Americans love shrimp. In fact, we eat shrimp more than any other seafood.

I guess I am the exception here because I don't love shrimp.

Oh, come on, Adrienne. I mean like what? Like no shrimp scampy, no shrimp fried rice, not even a shrimp taco?

Yeah, not so much. I think it's a textural thing.

Like, it has a bounciness that doesn't quite jive with me.

Oh, bouncy.

That's not something I heard on Top Chef before.

Uh, yeah.

But it is true that Americans eat a lot of shrimp, about six pounds per person each year.

That is literally hundreds of shrimp a person.

All that shrimp love makes it all the more surprising

that the Americans who actually catch shrimp are disappearing.

There were less than 1,500 shrimpers in Louisiana last year.

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