Do you think you end up with more shrimp if you keep a 29 quart cooler of headed shrimp versus 48 cooler full of heads on shrimp? I guess it would depend on the size of the shrimp, but have any of you measured the difference?
I have been shrimping since the late 70’s. I have found over the years that a full 48 quart cooler yields 28 to 30 quarts of headed shrimp. Varies with size. A lot of large shrimp → 28, mostly small → 30. A good nix → 29. The boys at DNR have done their research.
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Thanks Carolinagrandpa, that’s what I figured. Someone told me that you end up with more in the 29 quart cooler and I haven’t ever taken the time to check. Hopefully I can get a cooler full this weekend and I will post my findings.
Boy, that would be a great puzzle to solve. I wouldn’t know, seeing as how I cannot seem to fill a cooler…
a pound of lead, a pound of feathers and a pound of shrimp all weight the same. same way as 29 qts headed or 48 qts head on. i have tried both ways. seems to always come out about the same.
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29 quart Ziplock bags filled until you can just barely close them is more.
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blanket brings up another enigma…researched how much a cooler (48qts) should weigh, most responses around 50 lbs. So basically that means a lb of shrimp in one qt. Yet I know that when I put shrimp in a qt bag, it is significantly more than 1 lb…can anyone shed some light on this as well?
I have found that a once you head a 48 quart cooler full of shrimp you end up with about 32 pounds of tails. In this case, you should have a little more than a pound of shrimp per quart.
the ratio of shrimp to heads is approx 60% . for instance if you buy 50# of shrimp heads on you will reap approx 30# of shrimp headed which is a 60/40 split
A 48qt. cooler has about 70# of heads on shrimp. I freeze my shrimp in the quart containers like you get when you buy soup at a take out restaurant. A quart of shrimp in one of these containers averages 1.5 pounds. Hope this helps.
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Originally posted by COOLBREEZEa pound of lead, a pound of feathers and a pound of shrimp all weight the same. same way as 29 qts headed or 48 qts head on. i have tried both ways. seems to always come out about the same.
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