Tag Archives: Dickinson Bayou
Harried shrimpers pessimistic as Gulf season opens
Capt. Trey Branch and deckhand Cliff Dunn were at work Tuesday morning at a Hillman’s Seafood & Fish House dock preparing the shrimp boat Capt. Hunter for the opening Saturday of Gulf shrimp season. Dunn and Branch are lifelong shrimpers, from generations of shrimpers. Once, the days just before the boats took to Gulf waters after shrimp were a time of hard work and keen anticipation of profits to make it all worthwhile. Not so much any more, the shrimpers said. The hard work is still there, but profits have plummeted in part because of cheaper, farm-raised foreign shrimp flooding the market and higher operating costs driven by inflation, especially in fuel prices. 5 photos, >click to read< 20;47
Dead fish symptom of ailing bayous Low oxygen in Dickinson Bayou
SAN LEON – Powering his small boat across Dickinson Bay, Steve Hoyland Sr. worries about fish kills near the mouth of Dickinson Bayou every summer for the last six years. “I’ve lived here my whole life, but in the last two years you can’t catch (anything),” said Hoyland, 61, part owner of the monthly San Leon Seabreeze News. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Dead-fish-symptom-of-ailing-bayous-4048735.php
