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Texas: Local shrimpers stay in the bays catching live bait

July 20, 2022 Featured, Gulf of Mexico

Local shrimpers spend their morning in the bays catching shrimp for live bait not for people to eat. “Since Gulf King is gone. Everything started going downhill,” said one local shrimp boat captain. Gulf King Seafood, once called Aransas Pass its home with the largest fleet of Gulf Coast shrimp boats in the United States. Over 20 years ago, Gulf King moved locations. Soon after local shrimpers followed trying to find more opportunities. Now the only place selling gulf shrimp in Aransas Pass is Erikson and Jensen Seafood. Right now, their fleet is stationed in Florida. Catching gulf shrimp from Florida to Texas. Video, >click to read< 09:23

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Shrimp boat collision in Aransas Pass, Texas

June 4, 2021 Gulf of Mexico

In Aransas Pass, a shrimp boat crashed into a motorboat in the Aransas Pass harbor. The shrimping boat was the one to run over the smaller watercraft. Thankfully, no one was hurt. AP police said they do have a marine unit to patrol the harbor. If you find yourself in an emergency, dial 911. >click to watch video< 20:45

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Clifford Cooper, an early pioneer of the shrimping industry in Aransas Pass

July 29, 2020 Gulf of Mexico

Clifford Boyd Cooper (84) passed away on Saturday, July 25, 2020 at his home peacefully with his family at his side. He was born on November 16, 1935 to Oliver Claude and Daisy Marie Cooper in Bay City, Texas. Clifford was an early pioneer of the shrimping industry in Aransas Pass. He also shrimped off the coast of Africa and South America. He loved the open sea and filling his nets with shrimp from our beautiful Gulf of Mexico. He even taught net weaving to interested young men at Del Mar Tech College to help spur the shrimping industry. Later in life he worked for Gulf King Marine as maintenance/mechanic for their fleet of shrimp boats. >click to read< 08:31

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Global Diving Helps Refloat Boats After Hurricane Harvey

October 16, 2017 Gulf of Mexico

The fishing vessel R&R is floating once again after spending a month at the bottom of Conn Brown Harbor in Aransas Pass, Texas. The 100-ton shrimp boat got entangled with another vessel and sank during Hurricane Harvey. She was refloated by Global Diving and Salvage, which was contracted by the Coast Guard and the Texas General Land Office (GLO) to remove her from the waterway. Approximately 6,000 gallons of diesel fuel and other pollutants were pumped off before de-watering the vessel. images, click here to read the story 21:08

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Shrimp boat goes up in flames at Aransas Pass

October 20, 2016 National

shrimp-boat-fire-aransas-pass A day at work for a local shrimper took a turn for the worst when his boat went up in flames. Aransas Pass police say the boat was found drifting in an intercoastal waterway before coming to a rest in a cove near Turtle Bayou Road. Firefighters from Aransas Pass, Rockport, and Fulton responded to extinguish the fire. A fire boat belonging to the Rockport Volunteer Fire Department was also utilized after weeks of initial training. Coast Guard and Texas Parks and Wildlife were also on the scene. Police say the boat owner sustained minor injuries trying to put out the fire. Fortunately, a local boater was nearby to help assist the owner of the shrimp boat to shore. The owner of the boat says the fire started near his generator while he was on his way to get fuel at Conn Brown Harbor. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Video, click here 09:04

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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