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Walmart is facing a lawsuit filed by Louisiana shrimper George Barisich, who claims the retail giant used a photo of his shrimp boat without his permission in promotional materials advertising imported shrimp from Indonesia and Ecuador. The lawsuit, filed this week in Saint Bernard Parish, alleges that Walmart’s use of the image is misleading and implies a false endorsement of foreign seafood by a well-known Gulf Coast shrimper.
Barisich, a lifelong commercial fisherman and a prominent voice in Louisiana’s domestic seafood industry, is incensed that a photo of his vessel is being used to sell shrimp that. . .
