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One summer I spent helping a friend shrimp Galveston Bay. Up at 3:00am...at the boat by 4:00...load the Igloos full of ice onto the boat...head out across the bay before the first hints of dawn...feel the salt spray on your face as you stand on the bow and watch as the horizon turns a magnificent orange...drop the net, sit back and listen to the chatter on the CB radio of people recounting the previous nights experiences or just watch the Sun rise and regal in the beauty of the early morning bay coming to life...pull in the net hoping to see it full of shrimp but more often than not, just seaweed, jellyfish, small fish, crabs, stingrays and maybe an abandoned crab trap or two...dump the bag into the live box and begin culling never knowing what you might find, keeping some shrimp alive to be sold by the gallon to the baithouses and some dead to be sold by the pound...clean and hang the net, wash down the deck and you're back at the dock before noon to sell your catch and a days work is done...
Note: The round bulge in the net is a "Turtle Extruder" or maybe because of newly passed regulations, a "Fish Extruder"...A stainless steel device designed to allow turtles, and fish, to escape and not get caught in the net but also allowing many of the shrimp their freedom. Conservation vs Profit(or survival)...A never ending debate |
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