Big bucks from BP beats dragging nets for shrimp

Gulf Coast ^

[Hurricane]

Here is the reason fish/shrimp will be scarce. I witnessed it first hand. Read the link.

[Freddd]

Wow..

David Luke doesn’t blame the shrimpers for going to work for BP. After all, a fisherman can earn up to $3,000 a day.

It’s hard to make a living collecting shrimp, and BP is paying pretty good money.

So, a lot of our shrimp captains are in fact working for the company rather than shrimping. But the shrimp are there, yes sir,
Shrimpers who are dropping their nets are enjoying good prices for their catch.

Bill Richardson says the price for average sized shrimp is double what it was last year.

But a fisherman would have to catch plenty of shrimp, to equal that three thousand dollars a day BP is offering.——

How long can they afford to continue to pay $3,000 a day for all the shrimpers??? And then of course, they can claim more money from BP, because they lost shrimp business...I see Cloward Piven here..

[Smokin' Joe]

Although the situation is far from ideal (ideally, there would have been no blowout in the first place), those who do shrimp are getting more for their catch, those who don't are making money and keeping their boats up.

Not an ideal deal, but better than sitting on the beach broke while the boat deteriorates.

Fewer caught shrimp leaves a better chance for the shrimp to bounce back from the blowout once the well is plugged, too.