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. |