Dumb question: Are there other parts of the country that do shrimping besides the Gulf of Mexico?

[bluestateguy]

I don't know anything about this industry.

[virgogal]

1. No such thing as a dumb question---I don't know either.

[Xipe Totec]

2. There are other kinds of shrimp, but the Gulf is the only source of Gulf shrimp

and there are several varieties of them.



There are Maine shrimp up here on the Eastern seaboard.

[secondwind]

3. Maine has shrimp, apparently. See the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr3c9C_vKp0

[csziggy]

4. The only shrimp I will eat are wild caught in the Gulf

So I will probably not eat shrimp for the rest of my life. But then, I am in Florida, close enough to the Gulf that during the season there are roadside vendors selling shrimp and fish that were unloaded from the boats a few hours before I can buy them. I hope that the fishermen here (Apalachicola, St. Marks, etc.) can get a season in before the oil reaches their fishing areas.

I heard the figure that 40% of the seafood eaten in the US comes/came from the Gulf. Buy what you can now because it may not be available for a very long time.

[elleng]

5. Maryland

http://www.marvesta.com/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052901990.html?hpid=topnews

[LynneSin]

6. variations of the seafood that is found in the Gulf can be found elsewhere but...

like I live in a state that has blueshell crabs, something you can also get from the Gulf. But because a giant size source of Blueshells are now totally gone, that means it's going to pull harder on other areas that have blueshells - like the Chesapeake up here in my neck of the woods. The prices have definitely gone up with anything made with blue shells like crabcakes (yes there are other types of crabs but blueshells are most commonly used).

[KT2000]

7. Oregon has shrimp

and Canada does too.
There is a lot to know about shrimp, espeically those that are imported from other countries.
Visit: http://mangroveactionproject.org

Click on Shrimp facts.
Corporate shrimp farms are being built in once was the mangrove forests that harbor wildlife and protect the land from the worst from hurricans and typhoons. They permanently destroy the mangrove forests, farm shrimp until it gets too polluted and then leave a destroyed environment.

Please eat only US and Canadian shrimp.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. Georgia.

[Petrushka]

17. My first taste of fresh, wild-caught shrimp was in Brunswick GA . . .

. . . where there was a wharf restaurant (in the mid-60s) with
shrimp boats unloading their wares directly into the kitchen; and
there was a glass partition between the kitchen and dining area,
enabling restaurant patrons to watch their meals being prepared.
It was the best tasting shrimp we ever ate . . . making the "fresh
frozen" stuff available back home a disappointment to this very day.

[Bitwit1234]

9. I feel sorry for the people who are loosing their livelihood

but since they are all red states and supported Bush when he approved the removal of all those jobs from manufacturing in the north, maybe they are just getting a taste of their own medicine. This is also in a way the Bush administrations fault. If they had not relaxed regulations and letting the oil companies drop a lot of safe guards this might be able to be under control now.

But what I really truly feel sorry for is all the animals that thru no fault of their own are dying stuck in and covered with this oil.

By the way did you know that one group gathered up a lot of the loons cleaned them off and took them to Minnesota Lakes and turned them loose there. I saw it on local TV and the loons are starting to thrive. Wouldn't it be wonderful if they could clean a lot of the birds, such as the cranes and pelicans and put them some place safe.

[marions ghost]

14. We won't be able to save many birds

--once they're oiled, only a few will make it. Of course we have to do what we can. But nothing can ever be said to be "wonderful" about any of this...

Signed, one of those "red staters" you like to blame for all wrongs :thumbsdown:

[yella_dawg]

10. Lots of places.

But only gulf shrimp is so incredibly tasty. My experience with other varieties has been ho-hum at best.

[AsahinaKimi]

11. There must be shrimp boats in

Northern California. Not only can one get crab at fisherman's wharf, but shrimp as well. I seriously doubt that shrimp is shipped from the Gulf. Where fisherman go for this is beyond me, but there are a lot of commercial boats harbored in the bay.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

12. California - Bay Shrimp

[Blue_In_AK]

13. There's a small amount of shrimping up here,

but mostly we do crab.

[HockeyMom]

15. I guess I will go back to Taiwan shrimp

Very far away from the Gulf. Seriously though, I loved my flounder and sole which I always had when living on Long Island. I bought it here in SW Florida and it was a "product of CANADA." Pitiful. They can't ship it from the Northern US states? I love my MARYLAND CRAB too.

I guess I am in the WRONG part of the country.

[rfranklin]

16. Shrimp farming is big business....

A shrimp farm is an aquaculture business that cultivates marine shrimp or prawns<1> for human consumption. Commercial shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to service the U.S., Japan and Western Europe. Global production of farmed shrimp reached more than 1.6 million tonnes in 2003, representing a value of nearly $9,000,000,000 (9 billion) U.S. dollars. About 75% of farmed shrimp is produced in Asia, in particular in China and Thailand. The other 25% comes mainly from Latin America, where Brazil is the largest producer. Thailand is the largest exporting nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp_farm

[ThomWV]

18. Sure

I worked on a shrimp boat in the bay for a while when I lived in Miami. They also shrimp in the Pamlico/Albamarle Sound a good bit that I am aware of.