Georgia Poised to Stretch Shrimp Season as Imported Catch Squeezes Local Fleet
Georgia regulators are weighing an extension of the state’s shrimp season, even as docks stay quiet and profits thin out. Shrimp are plentiful in coastal waters, but cheaper imports and rising costs keep tightening the vise on one of the South’s oldest fishing trades. On a gray, wind-bitten December morning, a state research boat rolled hard through St. Andrew’s Sound, marking the final shrimp trawl of the year. It was…









