<p>South Carolina shrimper Craig Reaves on Friday praised President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unleashes-liberation-day-tariffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tariffs</a> on imports to rectify what the president views as a decades-long trade imbalance between the United States and other countries.</p>
<p>Reaves said the seafood industry has been getting crushed for decades by increased imports, and highlighted that these other nations are hurting ecosystems, giving Americans a bad product, and using other unsavory practices. Trump&#8217;s tariffs will give fishermen &#8220;immediate relief&#8221; and the space to rebuild and save the industry, he argued.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am a lifelong shrimper, my dad was a shrimper, so we are generational fishermen, and we have been getting killed by imports, for not just years, but literally decades,&#8221; he said on Fox News. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been suffering for a long, long time, and these tariffs, we believe, are going to give us some immediate relief.&#8221;</p>
<p>The tariffs are &#8220;also bringing attention to our industry, which is dying,&#8221; Reaves continued. &#8220;We have outsourced our whole industry; 94% of the shrimp consumed in the United States are imported.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox News anchor Sandra Smith noted that the United States has substantially increased how much shrimp is important here since 2014, now totaling 1.6 billion pounds.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think, unfortunately, we have outsourced everything in the United States,&#8221; Reaves responded. &#8220;This is what we have done to the seafood industry, we&#8217;ve outsourced it to Southeast Asia, South America, Ecuador, India.&#8221; Smith noted that 42% of all imported shrimp come from India, and 27% come from Ecuador.</p>
<p>Reaves said that imported shrimp is not better than domestic shrimp, but is less expensive.</p>
<p>&#8220;They are pond raised, farm raised product &#8212; they do not care about the environment in Southeast Asia, they are destroying ecosystems &#8230; they&#8217;re using illegal hormones, forced labor, slave labor &#8212; all these things are documented,&#8221; the fisherman said.</p>
<p>&#8220;So it is absolutely not a good product,&#8221; Reaves said. &#8220;The difference is, it is cheaper, and something we trying to say, &#8216;Good seafood is not cheap; cheap seafood is not good.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Reaves noted that, currently, the domestic shrimp industry does not have the infrastructure to fill the demand from United States citizens, but hopes they&#8217;ll be able to rebuild.</p>
<p>&#8220;The seafood industry, we&#8217;ve been getting destroyed for decades, so we&#8217;ve been living under pressure and pain, and I think this short-term pain is worth it in the end if we can save our industry,&#8221; Reaves said, referring to the likely general coming price increases due to tariffs.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we have outsourced way too much in the United States. We need to bring it home.&#8221;</p>
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