reply to post by Jessicamsa
My grandfather was a life time commercial fisherman along the gulf coast.
He would build 50 foot shrimp boats with his bare hands.
Anyways you wouldn't believe the hoops they make you go through to shrimp now days.
With all of the imported shrimp bringing local shrimp prices down you pretty much break even after paying for diesel, maintenance, etc.
His town used to be a bustling little fishing village but now days most of the boats are just rotting, a few old-timers are still trying to make a
living but I don't see them lasting another 5 years before the industry is completely wiped out.
Edit to add: My point is you hear about how our manufacturing base has been shipped overseas. What you don't hear about too much is how we are
losing/have lost much of our ability to feed ourselves.
[edit on 10-10-2009 by lucentenigma]
