National Fisherman

Shrimp

Most of the boats in Delacroix, La., are small day boats. Skim net boats fishing shrimp and outboard powered crabbers line the bayou for a couple of miles. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Down on the Bayou

Paul Molyneaux

Shane Slaughter with one of his spot prawn traps aboard the Hiro Maru. Faced with the loss of his market during the pandemic, Slaughter and his crewman Jason Murphy started selling direct. Shane Slaughter photo.

Going the direct route

Paul Molyneaux

Farrin’s Boatshop is finishing off this 46-foot Muscle Ridge hull for a California fisherman. Jon Johansen photo.

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California dreamers are drawn to a Maine boatshop

Michael Crowley

Shrimp boats docked in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Doug Stewart photo.

Gulf shrimp landings data showing rebound in Louisiana and decline in Texas

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Pink shrimp. Oregon Sea Grant photo/Lynn Ketchum.

Northwest shrimp harvest: Big tows per trip, but low prices

Charlie Ess

U.S. fishermen following strict regulations compete with $2.4 billion in of illegally caught seafood imports every year. Expanding the Seafood Import Monitoring Program may reduce the illegal trade, but observers say it now falls short. Oceana photo.

Oceana endorses expanding U.S. seafood imports monitoring

Paul Molyneaux

Jeremy Zirlott had to drop his price on 21-25 headless shrimp from $7 to $4.90 in order to compete in a market flooded with subsidized farmed shrimp. “I don’t know if we can stand another year of this,” he says. Paul Molyneaux photo.

Imports killing shrimp prices

Paul Molyneaux

Recipes for the Boat: Roasted Shrimp with Rosemary and Thyme

LaDonna Rose Gundersen

Jennifer Stevenson on board the F/V Captain Raleigh. Jennifer Stevenson photo.

To the Sea

This 36' x 15' aluminum Cajun-built vessel has been transformed from a North Carolina skimmer shrimp trawler to a Chesapeake Bay oyster dredge boat. Larry Chowning photo.

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Cajun shrimp boat gets a second act with Virginia oysters

Larry Chowning

BOEM's proposal for eight wind energy areas off the central U.S. Atlantic coast covers about 1.7 million acres, down from 3.9 million acres in the agency's original call area in April 2022. BOEM graphic.

BOEM adapts Gulf of Mexico wind planning to central Atlantic

Kirk Moore