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This occasion, the second of the state's two yearly inshore seasons, the Dupres, like other shrimpers across south Louisiana, are having a toilsome time finding them, and, for many, the lack of younger, smaller shrimp is troubling.
“We flourishing farther than I normally would to catch shrimp. They usually have lots of unimportant shrimp,” said Linward Dupre, 60.
He unloaded his overhaul of about 1,500 pounds Thursday at Bluewater Seafood in diminish Dulac after three days on the water. He said he usually catches four or five continuously that number.
Timbalier Bay, where 67-year-old Golden Pasture fisherman Adam “Pip” Verdin has been trawling this year, has been even worse.
“I went three times, and I didn't net nothing,” Verdin said. “I caught about 200 pounds. That's as low as I've ever seen it. Since the shrimp seasoned opened it's been like this. You don't see any small, small ones. ... There's no hieroglyph that it will be better later. Hopefully, but it don't look that way.”
Source: Houma Courier