Fresh is best, but freezing takes out some of the guesswork. Now, with their new flash freezer, they can freeze their catch right there on the boat. WWNO The mobile seafood education unit includes a brine freezer. Then they’d dump them onto the deck, sort them, and store them until they got enough to head back to shore and sell them. In the past, they would go out into the bay, cast their big nets, and scoop up the shrimp. “Come January, February, March - our income is like a roller coaster downhill,” says Lovell. Much of the good shrimping happens in the fall, and last fall they were able to freeze their shrimp right away, so they could sell it whenever. They bought a new flash freezer with the help of some grants. Last year they decided to invest thousands of dollars into new technology for their boat. “A lot of people struggled last year with the price of the shrimp and they are still struggling today because the price… is so low,” says Lovell. It’s hard work and in the past they never knew how much money they were going to make. Now they’re looking for new ways to make money by selling direct.īobby and Christine Lovell are shrimpers in St. They’ve seen prices fluctuate wildly over the past decade and have been hit repeatedly by hurricanes, and then the BP oil spill. Families who fish for a living in Louisiana struggle to remain competitive in a changing market.
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