What a shame that the bank sold Wayne Magwood’s place the other day. Taat is a super family that has had some hard times but kept on going. According to wayne; the taxes and etc got out of hand and the bank called in the loan. they are supposed to keep the business for the next two years. hope that this place does not end up being condos built by the money men around. Mt. Pleasant is going the way of big cities. clean to hell if there is not a stop put to it. just my opinion but then again; that is what i served this country for; so that I could have a free opinion.
I haven’t been to either in a while but I heard that Wando Shrimp also went out of business. Where does one find local shrimp anymore that close to the boat?
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Yeah, it was nice to motor up after a day of catching no fish and buy a few pounds of shrimp to take home. Sorry to hear that but I fear local shrimping is on it’s last leg anymore.
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Sad to hear…BUT…it will help the local fish population. 90 percent of a shrimper’s catch is not shrimp. I have been to Geechee’s several time. Seems legit.
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90 percent is ridiculous. Some days maybe 30 or 40 percent if there aren’t any shrimp and a very very large portion of the bycatch around here is crabs, jelly balls, and weeds… All stuff that goes back alive. Also if a shrimper pulls his try net and it is 90 percent fish they pull the big nets and get the heck outta there. Sometimes you can have 10 baskets of shrimp and not even a basket of trash, especially when the water cools down. There’s 1/5 of the boats there were ten years ago. The fishing (sharks, spot tail, trout, flounder, whiting) around here is better than it has been since before the 80’s. I’m not bashing, I’m just saying that all commercial fisherman work hard for the money they make and have to done lots to reduce the bycatch in most fisheries as much as they can.
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90 percent of a shrimper's catch is not shrimp
BS. I don’t think you’ve ever shrimped for a living. Do you really think a shrimper wants to pull in 1,000 pounds of trash to get 100 pounds of shrimp:question: No he doesn’t. Bycatch is a lot closer to 10% than 90%
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We bought some shrimp from Magwoods today. Just finished my share of a frogmore stew. Hmmmmm.
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I have been out with wayne on several occasions and your are right larry. the by catch is approx 10% and most of that is jelly balls and small pinfish/croakers etc. hardly any of them are large enough to keep. isn’'t it wonderful when those that have no idea how it is done have the
most negative input on the subject. there. i approve this message.
http://www.thestate.com/2014/03/21/3340508/fishing-practices-needlessly-ravage.html
I was not trying to be a hater. I read this article several months ago and thought it was way high. Not sure what it is locally. Its a necessary evil IMO.
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Coolbreeze, Can I borrow some money from you and not pay it back? I come from a good family that has been around Mount Pleasant for over 100 years. Thanks.
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http://www.thestate.com/2014/03/21/3340508/fishing-practices-needlessly-ravage.html I was not trying to be a hater. I read this article several months ago and thought it was way high.
That’s some left winger bunny huggers writing that. Take this quote from that article for instance…
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For every pound of shrimp landed, one pound of billfish is tossed aside, according to the study. It also notes that thousands of sea turtles die annually in shrimp nets.
I’ve probably caught 100,000 pounds of shrimp in drag nets, and my Daddy has caught more than that, and never once in my whole life have I ever seen a billfish caught in a shrimp net. Not even one. A pound of billfish for every pound of shrimp is total BS. And if we did, we’d sell it, it wouldn’t be by catch.
For about the last 20 years nets have been required to have TEDS, turtle excluder devices, and the sea turtle catch is almost zero. Back when we could catch them, we could sell them too and that wasn’t considered by catch either. That’s canned turtle soup.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
not hardly fritz. no need to be a smart ass. i was just making a comment about a friend of mine. i cannot help what the situation is or was. all i can do is show some compassion which you obviously do not have. then again; did he borrow money from you and not pay you back or is this the “:word on the street” that you like to broadcast? that was an unecessry comment but then again; i just consider the source. have a nice day.
When your borrow money from the bank and do not pay then the bank steps in.
Same with back taxes. May be sad but it is a fact of business.
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http://www.wtoc.com/story/25959261/local-shrimpers-struggle-without-help-from-arthur
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MOUNT PLEASANT, SC -Shrimpers at Shem Creek are expecting another poor shrimping season after not getting much rain from Hurricane Arthur.
“We were needing a little boost,? Larry Cobb, a shrimper for 35 years, said. ?All of us need a little boost.”
Rain pushes shrimp out of the rivers and creeks and into the ocean, making it easier for shrimpers to catch them.
“It was just a little bit of rain, but not enough to get the rain to where it would flush the actuaries out into the ocean where we could get to the shrimp,” Cobb said. ?It means a lot of shrimpers aren’t going be here next year."
Shrimpers in Charleston have seen two bad seasons in a row because of a lack of rain.
"Rain makes shrimp grow, and it keeps the nutrients stirred up in the marshes and stuff for the shrimp to grow off of,? Cobb said.
Cobb said things in Shem Creek have changed a lot since he started working there.
"We went through the heyday,? Cobb said. ?We’re in the final stage of commercial shrimping in Shem Creek. It used to be you could almost walk across this creek 10 years ago on boats, and now you’ve got seven actually actively shrimping.
Monday, Cobb caught 43 pounds before he had to come back. On a good day he could catch 300.
"The cost of fuel is too high, and anything you buy for a shrimp boat is twice as high as it was last year and it’s going to be higher next year,? Cobb said.
Shrimpers in the area are struggling and recently, Wando Shrimp went out of business.
“That’s one of the things I’ve worked for is to have something that could stand the hard times, and my small boat is still more economical than the big ones,? Cobb said. ?But you?ve got to produce a lot of shrimp to keep market for them, and we aren’t doing it.”
Without more rain and help from consumers, it may be a lost fight.
quote:No "word on the street" as you say. You made the comment "What a shame that the bank sold his place" then you went off on a tangent about money men and big cities changing everything. I guess you are entitled to your opinion but others are not.
Originally posted by COOLBREEZEnot hardly fritz. no need to be a smart ass. i was just making a comment about a friend of mine. i cannot help what the situation is or was. all i can do is show some compassion which you obviously do not have. then again; did he borrow money from you and not pay you back or is this the “:word on the street” that you like to broadcast? that was an unecessry comment but then again; i just consider the source. have a nice day.
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Originally posted by Cracker Larryquote:
http://www.thestate.com/2014/03/21/3340508/fishing-practices-needlessly-ravage.html I was not trying to be a hater. I read this article several months ago and thought it was way high.
That’s some left winger bunny huggers writing that. Take this quote from that article for instance…
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For every pound of shrimp landed, one pound of billfish is tossed aside, according to the study. It also notes that thousands of sea turtles die annually in shrimp nets.
I’ve probably caught 100,000 pounds of shrimp in drag nets, and my Daddy has caught more than that, and never once in my whole life have I ever seen a billfish caught in a shrimp net. Not even one. A pound of billfish for every pound of shrimp is total BS. And if we did, we’d sell it, it wouldn’t be by catch.
For about the last 20 years nets have been required to have TEDS, turtle excluder devices, and the sea turtle catch is almost zero. Back when we could catch them, we could sell them too and that wasn’t considered by catch either. That’s canned turtle soup.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
Tugted invented the TED
Get em Fritz!
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. FISH 24/7---- 25 Grady w/ a couple of Gas Guzzling 175 Johnsons “O-SEA-D” the old “Havanadaydream”
Get em Fritz!
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. FISH 24/7---- 25 Grady w/ a couple of Gas Guzzling 175 Johnsons “O-SEA-D” the old “Havanadaydream”
Get em Fritz!
fritz: i did not go off on a tangent. i expressed my opinion; yes. your are right but ; i did not post a smart ass comment such as you did. you are entitled to your opinion so excuse me. get over it.