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Blessing the shrimp fleet is an annual event

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Blessing the shrimp fleet is an annual event. Shrimp have become the mostvaluable species in the U.S. fisheries, and more than 2/3 of the domestic catchis taken from Gulf waters. The shrimp fleet has been so improved that it canbe considered one of the most modern seagoing fleets in the world.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection; P. 210 of Our Changing Fisheries 1970 Centenary NMFS centenary volume

Location

Alabama

Collection

Historic Fisheries