Steve Harmon
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Excerpt from Louisiana Conservationist, Vol. 11: February, 1959We see, for instance, that every year during July, the white shrimp (fig. 1) shows a marked seasonal scarcity in the commercial fishery as compared to the months before or after. Actually great quantities of very small White shrimp without commercial value en ter inside waters as early as June and usually congre gate in waters too shallow for trawling. As they grow and seek deeper water, the legal size limit and closed season, plus a certain amount of escapement in any possible illegal catches, all tend to mitigate against their exploitation.After the shrimping season legally opens in the middle of August, the fast-growing juvenile white shrimp are trawled heavily; at first by small nets operating in shallow water, then as they return to sea, they must run a gauntlet against successively larger nets. After July the white shrimp graph takes the form of an offset skyscraper. The peak comes in October when the large adolescent individuals returning to the sea tend to concentrate in the channels leading thereto and in the sea itself outside the passes. These season shrimp as the fishermen call them, are the big money crop, that which makes or breaks fisherman, dealer and processor alike.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.