Tag Archives: Pensacola’s fishing industry

In the Wake of Hurricane Sally, City won’t pay for removal of boats sunk behind Joe Patti’s

Since Pensacola fisherman Linh Tran lost his livelihood when his shrimping trawler sank seven months ago during Hurricane Sally, his days have been plagued by anxiety and dread over how to retrieve the vessel. Earlier this week, he got more bad news. The Pensacola City Council declined to take up the issue of whether to allocate money to remove two sunken boats, including Tran’s, from a small harbor behind Joe Patti’s Seafood. So for now, the two boats, along with a third one on Joe Patti’s property  will remain in the water. After hearing of the council’s decision, Tran — who emigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam, became a citizen and reached his American dream of buying a boat to shrimp the Pensacola Bay — tried to hold back tears. >photos, lots of photos, click to read< 19:10 Brother starts GoFundMe Fundraiser – Shrimp Boat Sunk by Hurricane Sally – Daniel Tran is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Linh Tran, >click to read<

Appleyard: Pensacola’s fishing industry had a few odd twists

Northwest Florida’s economic history usually places illustrations on the years 1870 to 1965, when over time three large organizations plied the fishing trade. During those years the Sewell Cobb firm, Warren Fish Company and the E.E. Sanders and Company became sizable employers, using a total of as many as 60 well-built smacks for a trade that took the skilled lineman far into the gulf, often off the coast of Mexico. This trade became possible when local ice production provided practical cooling for the fish-filled box cars, the cars coming, of course, when the L&N Railroad’s trackage would bring the fresh-iced fish to markets to the north. Usually the industry is detailed within those factors; however, there were two other tales that illustrated the ingenuity of men in their desire to earn a dollar. click here to read the story 19:02