Kindra Arnesen is a Louisiana small family fisheries advocate and, along with her husband, captain and owner of her family-run fishing business. Ever since the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill in 2010 she has been advocating for her community on the state, national, and international level. From 2015 to 2023, she participated as a plaintiff in Earth Island Institute/ALERT Project et al. v. Wheeler et al., Case 3:20-cv-00670-WHO (N.D. Cal. 2021). She valiantly fought to sustain media interest long past the 2010 disaster - ultimately leading to rules that will eliminate use of toxic chemical dispersants and will better protect people and marine life during oil spills. Now, as the Vice President of the Women’s Southern Fisheries Alliance and in her fifth year as commercial fisheries representative on the Plaquemines parish coastal zone management advisory committee, she is working tirelessly to  support fishing communities against corporate interests. As she puts it, “Gulf fishermen have been left behind. We haven't been represented on the local, state, federal, or international level. How does a government limit its citizens' access to a healthy, viable, and sustainable food source? I feel like I am part of a collapse of a national industry. If we lose our shrimpers we will not be able to sustain our working waterfronts and that will have an economic impact from coast to coast.”

Help support Kindra and small scale producers like her by buying local, wild caught seafood and taking a stand against offshore fish farms in the United States.