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The Advocate
Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
 
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The original Gulf of America business

BY ADAM DAIGLE | Acadiana business editor​ ​ ​

When President Donald Trump in January changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, a Lafayette business was already ahead of the name game.

"This is huge for us," Adam Peterson recalled thinking when about 40 friends and clients texted him about Trump's shoutout.

Peterson, a Lafayette resident, and Joseph Crookshank started Gulf of America Outfitters, a charter fishing business, in 2023, two years before Trump's executive order assigning a new name to the body of water bounded to its north by the United States and to the south by Mexico.

You can check Claire Taylor's story here. 

Have a good day and thanks for reading. 

 
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