Shrimp Explorations Off Southeastern Coast of the United States (1956-1958)

Résumé du livre

New deep-water royal-red shrimp grounds were discovered off the Florida east coast during the 1956-1958 explorations of vessels chartered by the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. The trawling investigations were conducted from Cape Hateras, N.C., to Dry Tortuga, Fla. Commercial catches of royal-red shrimp have ranged as high as 800 pounds (heads-off) per fishing day. These shrimp, of a size desired by industry, have been found most consistently in depths of 180 to 220 fathoms between St. Augustine and Cape Canaveral, Fla. Other possible commercial fishery resources of rock shrimp, scallops and flounder also were located. The experience of both industry and the Bureau in operating conventionally-powered shrimp trawlers in the swift current of the Gulf Stream indicated that these vessels are presently underpowered for this work.