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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

I saw a shrimp boat that appeared to be working in the Meadows yesterday. Can shrimpers go where ever they can draft and pull nets? This was a deeper portion of the meadows, but still not an area I would think they could operate due to bottom damage.

ironmanstan · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:54 am Post subject:

one of our first shrimp boats was flat bottom with a tunnel type hull. It could go pretty shallow. I don't know what the rules and boundaries are up here. I wonder if that boat was out of Rivera.
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BayFly · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:11 am Post subject:

A sport netter has specific bays they can use their nets, so I would imagine commercial netters have similar rules. Maybe the TXP&W site might state where they can work?

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

. I don't know if it was a flat bottom or not, but it had the full set of draw works off the back. Sharp V bow design. Looked to be about a 30 footer or so.

I remember the flat bottoms with the nets on the front. I bet those things could run pretty shallow.

I was running the icw, and saw him right behind those islands on the west side across from the mouth of baffin. Just seemed like an odd place to see one.

ironmanstan · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:53 am Post subject:

Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

could have been the same design you're talking about. I didn't get close enough to see. he had a gaggle of seagulls following him though, and it looked like his nets were out.

although... I suppose if the corp of engineers can dump 87 million metric tons of dredge material on the grass in the meadows a shrimp boat isn't the worst thing that can happen back there.

Shallowrunner · Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

I saw that same shrimp boat on Thrusday and thought it peculiar also. Big blue shrimp boat

R.Arnold · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:02 am Post subject:

probably scooping up a bunch of flounder

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3961

that's curious....are you sure he wasn't doing something else? a lot of people use shrimp boats to haul lumber and other supplies to cabins down there.....although the birds working behind it may mean he was dragging....

there are more than a few derelict crab traps in the meadows, so a shrimper working through there for a week or so might actually help things out (if he actually kept the traps out of the water when he snagged them)...

and it's very curious why one would go in the meadows, when the shrimp are hanging out in Riviera channel and the ICWW, where the temps are nicer, and the currents are better....

and I'm pretty sure there's a rule that shrimpers can't drag in the seagrass beds, at least south of the causeway....

interesting....
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Oil Field Trash II · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 1560

I was just passing by in the ICW and saw him back there. A couple days before I saw a bunch of porpoise in the area jumping clear out of the water, so I was trying to see if they were back there again.

he could have been dropping off items for a cabin. but it looked like his nets were being drug. lots of birds behind him also, but that could have just been from his props kicking up mud.

hard to say for certain, but I thought it was weird. I don't think I've ever seen one back there working before.

Shallowrunner · Joined: 11 Mar 2016 Posts: 6

No doubt he definitely was shrimping. I saw his lines out.

SaltyMutt · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 12:58 pm Post subject:

Maybe Forrest Gump was testing new waters..
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Rich9395 · Pony Mullet Joined: 28 Apr 2010 Posts: 55

We went past him headed north yesterday morning early. I thought it was dark green but it may have been blue. I was curious as well....

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3961

a buddy thinks it could be the Rivera boys dragging for earthworms....
becky
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Skipper · Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 2:45 pm Post subject:

I saw the same guy. He was shrimping. I used to see 2 or 3 of them at a time back in the day. I would get live bait from them back then... Adios

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