Vietnamese Shrimper Community in Louisiana Is Adapting to Climate Change

After facing a dramatic land erosion as the Gulf of Mexico narrows the gap between land and open sea, the shrimping community of New Orleans is still standing strong. Plaquemines Parish in the southernmost part of New Orleans is where you will find the shrimping community. It is now well versed with the environmental changes, the rise in sea-level, and the erosion of land.

Many of the families immigrated and settled in the US with th....