How Does A Shrimp Boat Work?

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  • čas přidán 24. 12. 2012
  • See how a shrimp boat catches shrimp and learn about the different gear that is used to catch this tasty culinary treasure. More information on shrimping families, shrimp recipes and seafood festivals at www.shrimpalliance.com

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  • @Ghi11ieGhost
    @Ghi11ieGhost Před 10 lety +197

    Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it. - Bubba

  • @anabel0530
    @anabel0530 Před 5 lety +43

    I love that the majority of comments are about Forrest Gump/Bubba 👏👏😂

  • @tonyrmathis
    @tonyrmathis Před 4 lety +27

    Spent my teenage years shrimping out of Bayou La Batre. It was how I wanted to spend my life but life had a different plan. I still look back on it fondly even the bad times were good.

    • @notatechie
      @notatechie Před 3 lety +3

      Sounds like more to the story. You should write it down

    • @rxkinder
      @rxkinder Před 3 lety

      Yes. What was your 'pivot'?

    • @tonyrmathis
      @tonyrmathis Před 3 lety +8

      @@rxkinder
      Got married to a shrimpers daughter that didn't want me gone for 3 weeks at a time. My last trip was on her dad's boat in 1982. I made $8800 in 22 days. We off loaded in Port Lavaca Texas and swapped crews. I stayed on the boat while the rest of the guys went to a bar when a really hot woman who's face i couldn't see got on the boat. I averted my eyes and positioned myself in the galley so I wouldn't be tempted to lust after a crewmate's girl when suddenly she rounded the corner and kissed me that's when i realized it was my wife. We got a room and 9 months later my daughter was born. We would probably have a dozen kids if I had kept working the big boats.
      My dad owned a bay boat that I would've taken over if he hadn't sold it. We lived right on the Bayou and had our own dock but after they dredged it ship yards moved in and it became unlivable. Sand blasting, banging and everything else 24/7. My dad had enough, sold everything and retired so day shrimping was no longer an option just the big boats like the 116 foot steal hull my father inlaw ran.
      Anyway my dad moved back to northern Alabama to care for his mother and mother inlaw who were in nursing homes and we got into the trucking business. It was great for a while but not being home every day to see my kids grow up is something I wich I could undo. To this day I would still love to have a bay boat and work Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound. My wife would love it too. We both loved shrimping on bay boats it's just the slabs (what shrimpers call large steal boats) that neither of us care for. Too much of a grind with little to no opportunity to actually enjoy what you're doing.
      This is a link to google earth of the place we lived as it looks today.
      earth.google.com/web/@30.38124854,-88.23874118,8.00317076a,135.46135198d,35y,0h,0t,0r
      When we lived there it was nothing but trees a house and the dock. Paradise lost in my opinion.

    • @brodiehopkinson
      @brodiehopkinson Před 3 lety +4

      @@tonyrmathis damn thats a great story man

    • @NoName-oj5pl
      @NoName-oj5pl Před 3 lety +3

      @@tonyrmathis Great story

  • @thomaspurcell5205
    @thomaspurcell5205 Před 8 lety +13

    I have no idea that you had required so many by catch devices in your industry now I have a better feeling about what you are doing out there continue the good work with your videos and many of us armchair shrimpers will appreciate your product thank you

    • @tonyrmathis
      @tonyrmathis Před 4 lety

      It used to not be that way and catches like the one in the video were once a season if you were lucky. Usually you'd have more by catch than anything else. I got out of it when TEDs and By Catch devices first started being used. Between the reduction in catch and farm raised shrimp from overseas you couldn't support a family anymore. Apparently things have changed. It's a good thing too because the wild stocks were being severely depleted.

  • @bel250
    @bel250 Před 10 lety +17

    I learned something everyday via youtube. Thanks for sharing. I love eating shrimp.

  • @TexasShrimpDiva
    @TexasShrimpDiva Před 2 lety +2

    I am a Commericial shrimp boat deckhand out of Galveston, Texas. I wanted to thank you for providing a quality video that I was able to share with my viewers of my Facebook page. They thoroughly enjoyed learning about how our boat operates. Take care and I hope you’ll do more.

  • @trugangsta4real
    @trugangsta4real Před 9 lety +26

    "I've been on a real BIG boat."
    -Forrest Gump

  • @tonyhamilton9764
    @tonyhamilton9764 Před 3 lety +3

    Everything I knew prior was from watching Forest Gump. I really enjoyed seeing the exclusionary devices for turtles and fish. Had no idea of the requirements and sustainability. Thanks for uploading!

  • @jamesrogalski2085
    @jamesrogalski2085 Před 3 lety +4

    I absolutely loved this video! I do so love shrimp, especially in a simple sauce of horseradish and ketchup. Thank you for the great video!

  • @hughjaass3787
    @hughjaass3787 Před 3 lety +17

    As a retired teacher, Science, I gotta say, this is a wonderfully informative video. Had no idea how the boats actually worked. Thanks

  • @MinorcanMullet
    @MinorcanMullet Před 3 lety +1

    Seeing Capt. Wesley on the Luana Luisa was a treat. Lots of memories!

  • @caryfrancis8030
    @caryfrancis8030 Před 8 lety +6

    I shrimped the West Coast of Vancouver Island in the early 90's. We played a role in the destruction of the ooligan population. Nobody knew that they swam out to deep sea of the west coast, only to return to spawn in the rivers. There were few rules, and little science. I was on a 50' 3 man door trawler. With a 50' wide net in 60-80 fathoms. From 5am till 11:15 at the peak days on 1.5 hour tows and under 10 min turnaround. Tows maxed out at 3000-2800 lbs and at 95 cents to as much as $1.10 a pound. Boat held 28,000 lbs max, we pushed above 30 a few times. Thats leaving harbour 9 pm arriving on the grounds 5am, two days fishing at the peak, 3 days the norm, 4 at the beginning and end of the season. Always left the grounds immediately after last tow, arrived harbour 5-6 am unload, sometimes immediately, sometimes as late as 3 pm. Hour and a half unload, clean, load new ice and reset the panels. Back at harbour S.S.S clean up, restaurant/pub 5 pm, dinner, drinks and stagger back to boat 11:30 pm, boat pulls out, pick crab pots in harbour, reset bait, and go shrimpin again !

  • @dylanglenn116
    @dylanglenn116 Před 8 lety +14

    This is a very nice video. Thank you for uploading
    -Dylan

  • @Imnotyourdoormat
    @Imnotyourdoormat Před 3 lety +19

    Good thing Lt. Dan showed up when he did I'm not sure Forrest could have handled this all by his lonesome...

  • @MotorBunnyBDM
    @MotorBunnyBDM Před 9 lety +202

    I came here to catch a glimpse of Forrest Gump.

  • @chowchow4952
    @chowchow4952 Před 7 lety +2

    Been watching shrimp boats leave Freeport Texas for years. Had a general ideal of how it was done, but now I really know. Great Video.

  • @nathan0717
    @nathan0717 Před 6 lety +10

    This video looks like a informative video I'd watch in middle school

  • @Eszra
    @Eszra Před 10 lety +5

    Wow, I learned something. This is really interesting! Ever since I saw Forest Gump, not only that, and living in Florida, I've always wanted to know how they worked. I'm happy about the turtle escape hatches too.

  • @jonmacdonald5345
    @jonmacdonald5345 Před 7 lety +7

    Keep that Shrimp hand strong! Shrimpin ain't easy!

  • @Airspace12
    @Airspace12 Před 7 lety +3

    Great video, Yet one important note was left out.. Its the stablelizers placed on the outside of each side of the out riggers that keeps the boats from flipping over in high seas. Shrimping was my very first job in the Gulf before T.E.D.s were implemented. We were based out of Sabine Pass, Texas.

  • @seansky2721
    @seansky2721 Před rokem

    These kind of trawlers have fascinated me for years. Captain Reggie Sawyer of Darien, GA was a great help in making my companies shrimp boat model kits more authentic and fun to build!

  • @Bakaat777
    @Bakaat777 Před 3 lety +2

    I WENT shrimping during a summer break from college, and I STILL never knew exactly HOW the nets worked. I just knew they brought in breakfast lunch and dinner and a WHOLE LOTTA MONEY! No, it wasn't Bubba's idea of shrimp this or shrimp that... we caught lobster, crabs and every kind of seafood known to man, and we ATE it!

  • @marywillhite5499
    @marywillhite5499 Před 2 lety +1

    Good video! I always wondered how the nets worked etc, We have a retired fishing vessel that was converted into a pleasure cruiser and I love seeing how the components that still exist on the vessel fit in with the process. We sleep in what was once the "fish tank" and found shrimp fishing areas marked on the old charts, but it was made by a company since not operational so I crave weird information about how the boat worked.

  • @tylerlindsey3007
    @tylerlindsey3007 Před 6 lety +2

    Thank you for making the video! I learned a lot from it, and i've been curious to see how TED and bycatch removal devices look in action.

  • @chriswharton9092
    @chriswharton9092 Před 3 lety +6

    Really interesting. Great to see professionals, the true ecologists.

  • @L00NGB00W
    @L00NGB00W Před 9 lety +5

    Great video. I'm so hungry now!

  • @LittleBudd13
    @LittleBudd13 Před 7 lety +52

    Bubba Knew way more about shrimpin then this!

  • @keithbachand2251
    @keithbachand2251 Před 5 lety

    I would love to try shrimping like this one day. Looks like a lot of hard work but rewarding as well.

  • @jeremygobbato738
    @jeremygobbato738 Před 3 lety +1

    I have honestly always wondered about this. Thank you

  • @dudelarson
    @dudelarson Před 3 lety +1

    I went shrimping back in 2003 and it must have been before the times of by-catch reduction devices, because we half the catch was usually fish, rays, sharks, and every other type of seafood imaginable (even conch shells with live conch inside). I spent the first 10 minutes desperately trying to save all the fish's lives that we wouldn't eat. That changed me, and I promised to learn and help the situation because that wasn't right. Now I'm a fisheries biologist lol

  • @sketchyssk8shop
    @sketchyssk8shop Před 7 lety +4

    Wish you guys would do some more videos like this. trying to buy a shrimp boat

  • @actionjackson9000
    @actionjackson9000 Před 8 lety

    Nice haul! I came here because Im eating shrimp at home right now, and there's nothing that enhances flavor more than knowing where your food came from. Thanks for making this video! Yum!

    • @actionjackson9000
      @actionjackson9000 Před 8 lety

      Toolman329
      Menudo... never heard of it... I'll see if I can get my hands on some. And I won't look it up until I'm eating it... =3

  • @bobgarmon
    @bobgarmon Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this informative glimpse into shrimp harvesting. I’ll savor my next meal of shrimp even more.

  • @donjon2816
    @donjon2816 Před 3 lety

    I work on a shrimp boat in SC. Best fucking job I’ve ever had. Nothing like seeing that sunrise in the morning.

  • @ricksmith6298
    @ricksmith6298 Před rokem

    This is a great video. I was a key west shrimper from 77 to 83. I still wear two earings..like we did then.

  • @markjessurun1294
    @markjessurun1294 Před 3 lety

    Very good info and now I know about how a Shrimp Boat operates!! Well Explained Sir and I do wanna Thank you Much !!

  • @luckyduckydrivingschool3615

    Thanks for the doc! Well made, makes eating these tasty shrimp taste all the better!

  • @aklanpinoy6717
    @aklanpinoy6717 Před 8 lety

    love eating shrimp! thank you for this video!

  • @davidchristensen6908
    @davidchristensen6908 Před 7 lety

    Thanks for showing how the nets work. I know about the "Ted" but did not realize the shrimp fisherman developed them that is cool. I did not know about the "By catch" this save other species and cuts down on the work with have just shrimp to go through. I love shrimp, I love fishing and want to see fisheries taken care of. On to watch Crawfish fisheries video. Best wishes keeping the health of the fisheries.

  • @eprofessio
    @eprofessio Před 3 lety

    My tummy thanks all the shrimp workers.

  • @eliastindstad
    @eliastindstad Před 2 lety

    Thank you shrimp alliance, I enjoyed this educational content thouroughly, shrimp!

  • @johnwebster1608
    @johnwebster1608 Před 8 lety

    Great video! Thank you for providing this educational material.
    When the shrimp are in the hold below, are they iced on their journey back to harbor?

  • @douggriffin2910
    @douggriffin2910 Před 4 lety

    I never knew how shrimp were caught....very informative/educational video....nice going

  • @boodlehopper
    @boodlehopper Před 3 lety

    Great Job ! Fun and very informative to watch . Good to see those turtles and fish can escape . Thanks

  • @SuperLittleTyke
    @SuperLittleTyke Před 3 lety

    Very interesting, as I love shrimps. We call 'em prawns in the UK. Our shrimps are brown shrimps and very much smaller. They are also very tasty, but difficult to peel because of their small size.

  • @orvilleclift
    @orvilleclift Před 8 lety

    Keep 'em coming, guys. Love to eat 'em.

  • @RednecksGoneWild
    @RednecksGoneWild Před 10 lety

    I love Shrimp!

  • @AlbertMoyerJr
    @AlbertMoyerJr Před 3 lety

    Glad to learn about the shrimp boat. Great video!

  • @DaveSmith-dn4yf
    @DaveSmith-dn4yf Před 11 měsíci

    We enjoyed your video as we are watching a shrimper off Daytona Beach Shores.

  • @looking8030
    @looking8030 Před 3 lety +1

    What a cool video and love the turtle and fish release things absolutely 💯👌🏽🇦🇺

  • @FishingwithBrewski
    @FishingwithBrewski Před 4 měsíci

    Great examples of some clean pulls. If they didn't catch 5 times as many fish as they did shrimp here in NC I wouldn't have an issue with them at all.

  • @tomhenley6267
    @tomhenley6267 Před 7 lety

    Thank you never knew about nets. Fantastic about the sea turtle safety feature. Really

  • @TheMariopizza123
    @TheMariopizza123 Před 7 lety +18

    A bunch of dudes being bros eating shrimps sounds awesome were do i sign up

    • @tonyrmathis
      @tonyrmathis Před 4 lety +1

      You haven't experienced life until you've anchored up and had an old timer boil up some fresh shrimp and a pot of gumbo while drinking an ice cold beer and watching the sun go down on a glassy sea. It was almost a religious experience the first time I did it. Ofcourse the next day the old timer made boiled cabbage and caught me throwing mine overboard. It was peanut butter sandwiches the rest of the trip. RIP Capt. LaForce

  • @ltran54
    @ltran54 Před 9 lety

    Thank you so much for taking the time and post this video clip. I like it very much.

  • @glockman61
    @glockman61 Před 8 lety

    Very interesting. My wife's father was a shrimp captain based out of Apalachicola, FL. His son works at Buddy Wards and Son's Seafood Company in Apalachicola.

  • @phapnui
    @phapnui Před 7 lety +1

    I imagined a boat with tiny sailors.

  • @sydsyd
    @sydsyd Před 7 lety +1

    Lots of hard work!

  • @danmo43
    @danmo43 Před 7 lety

    Awesome! Thank you so much for that!

  • @galebroshious5007
    @galebroshious5007 Před 7 lety +1

    very nice..from a guy who actually used to
    do this,,,

  • @garygemmell3488
    @garygemmell3488 Před 3 lety

    Great video. My favorite way to cook shrimp is in butter with a little bit of onion powder, some green onions, a bit of garlic, and handful of cilantro at the very end with the heat off. Seafood candy.

  • @jimlong527
    @jimlong527 Před 3 lety

    Today I learned something good, thank you

  • @brianheidel4550
    @brianheidel4550 Před 9 lety

    nice explanation of how the net works

  • @robbelvedere62
    @robbelvedere62 Před 7 lety +3

    Those black PRAWNS are a common catch in Australian waters.....we call them leader prawns and the biggest I have personally caught weighed in at 454 grams or 1lb and around 16 inches long!!!!

  • @marksposito817
    @marksposito817 Před 3 lety +1

    You do it a bit different than us Aussies. We have a different deck setup, we dump our product on a raised tray which is better for your back.

  • @drummerdude413
    @drummerdude413 Před 8 lety

    Very neat, thanks for sharing this video! :)

  • @tomjeffersonwasright2288

    You didn't mention the shrimpers. They are a special kind of people, hard working at sea and hard partying ashore. There is something addictive about a shrimper's life. No matter what happens ashore, as long as you get back to the boat you have a home, a job, and food. Many boats follow the shrimp back and forth across the Gulf Coast each year. The life in fishing ports is"colorful" to say the least. And there is something magical about the moment you pop the bag line and empty the bag. Mud and misery? Clean shrimp and a short easy culling? And maybe an old pirate chest. You never know until you pop the lines, and dump that bag on deck.
    I haven't been shrimping in 45 years, but when I am on a shrimp boat, with the smell of the fuel, the nets, and the sea, I find myself wanting to head out again.

  • @Dezzy7model
    @Dezzy7model Před 10 lety +1

    Thanks :)

  • @arthur73044
    @arthur73044 Před 3 lety

    Informative.
    Well delivered.
    Thank you for sharing the video clip.
    God bless.

  • @6stringgunner511
    @6stringgunner511 Před 3 lety +1

    First!
    You have to name your shrimpin' boat!
    The most beautiful name in the world,.... Jenny!!!

  • @Glitch-nr9ct
    @Glitch-nr9ct Před 9 lety +1

    Awesome video. Thanks for posting it. Question: what happens if the net comes in to contact with a large, heavily anchored object like a rock or coral on the bottom? Seems like it would definitely break something.

    • @claytonmareno
      @claytonmareno Před 9 lety +1

      The net would either tear or completely stop you

  • @richlrn64
    @richlrn64 Před rokem

    Great video! I learned something. Thanks.

  • @TuffBurnOutTeam
    @TuffBurnOutTeam Před 4 lety

    Great video 📹
    Thank you for Sharing
    Australia 🌏

  • @JoseOrtiz-im5wu
    @JoseOrtiz-im5wu Před 6 lety

    Awesome information. Ty

  • @observerlink4124
    @observerlink4124 Před 10 lety

    Great video! Thanks for uploading this! I LOVE shrimp and I want to see them continually wisely and strategically harvested as a sustained, delicious food source. I love sea turtles and I want to see them preserved as a species (only MOCK turtle soup for me!) Long live Bubba-Gump!

  • @GMDII
    @GMDII Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the video. Very educational.

  • @marietran1969
    @marietran1969 Před 7 lety

    Thank you very much. I love it.

  • @DeanLorman
    @DeanLorman Před 7 lety +2

    Excellent,YUMMY !

  • @284Winchester
    @284Winchester Před 3 lety

    Thanks for posting this video.

  • @rideswithscissors
    @rideswithscissors Před 3 lety

    Yummy yum! Do shrimpers get tired of eating shrimp? I have got them right off the boat in St Augustine, Florida, soo good!

  • @KMark-pm5je
    @KMark-pm5je Před 6 lety

    Excellent video thank you so much for sharing

  • @TheHammyhambone
    @TheHammyhambone Před 7 lety +1

    dont wait up for the shrimp boat mama...daddys coming home with the crabs

  • @9carcottrell246
    @9carcottrell246 Před 6 lety

    Excellent video thanks for posting

  • @TheDADX13
    @TheDADX13 Před 7 lety +1

    very cool...and that's from an old key west shrimper..

  • @monstermunch7083
    @monstermunch7083 Před 3 lety

    Yeah great job, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • @sgtcrab1
    @sgtcrab1 Před 11 lety

    Good vid from a NS Can skipper!

  • @aricahans8451
    @aricahans8451 Před 2 lety

    Watching shrimp boats right now on coast of North Myrtle Beach. They docked right in front of our condo last night. #daddy's boy

  • @ReelCajun
    @ReelCajun Před 5 lety

    I've worked on a shrimp boat and while it's a lot of work, I can be fun at times

  • @SkedzaFujiwara
    @SkedzaFujiwara Před 10 lety +2

    The turtles can escape through that vent because its strong enough to lift the net to escape, and fish can go through the hole at the end because shrimp tend to just sit at the back of the net while as fish are going to head through that hole, not all the time but mostly.

  • @lpattenaude1716
    @lpattenaude1716 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for posting

  • @Cat_main_apex
    @Cat_main_apex Před 4 lety

    Those are some nice looking shrimp

  • @aenjgeal
    @aenjgeal Před rokem

    Awesome vid, thanks!

  • @dbloo1
    @dbloo1 Před 7 lety +2

    Great video. What happens if the nets get caught on an obstruction on the ocean floor.

    • @johntran3086
      @johntran3086 Před 6 lety

      it will break through the net and you'll loose some part of them. as a captain u'll know when it hit the object. if not, in about 30 mins to 1 hour the boat will not balance cus the other side will be heavy and. so they pick the net up and change the new one in. and mark the spot, report to the coastguard and they'll pick up soon

  • @mark4m557
    @mark4m557 Před rokem

    Those fish excluders work. We had a set of nets with fish excluders on the boat I worked on. People don’t use them because they think they are losing shrimp from the hole in the net. I opened the fish excluder on one side, and left the other side closed. Both nets caught the same amount of shrimp.

  • @edmoore3910
    @edmoore3910 Před 3 lety

    nothing on earth beats the taste of freshly caught shrimp....even morel mushrooms.

  • @ricardobarrientos6426
    @ricardobarrientos6426 Před 6 lety

    hi I was worked srhimp trawler fishing in Scotland year 2007 very hardworking

  • @Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8

    I like Shrimp, and I was Curious how it was done. Thanks

  • @alphasxsignal
    @alphasxsignal Před 7 lety

    Interesting, thanks for the video

  • @dwaynekoblitz6032
    @dwaynekoblitz6032 Před 6 lety

    Excellent video.

  • @DentalPro2021
    @DentalPro2021 Před 6 lety

    I was watching this while eating shrimp :)

  • @wildflowers5555
    @wildflowers5555 Před rokem

    Nice Video!( I was born in the 1950's rural. The Texas Coast once had Croatian Immigrants with their beautiful wood, brightly painted like Ionian Sea Fishing Boats, all over the place. I assume those Boats are in Museums now.)( P.S. The Chinese that settled in Louisiana, after assisting in the building of the Transcontinental Railway Systems built Villages of Houses on Stilts over Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain. They started the Shrimp Industry. European Cultures had supposedly not eaten them before.