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When I lived on the coast. Always thought big shrimp boats sitting on 55 gallon drums in a front yard in Arkansas Pass was a nice touch. Also wondered how they got there.

Gee, I never noticed any shrimp boats or oyster boats in the Lower Laguna..................

Except the raw onion tainting.

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If you were to use groups of people within America to further illustrate these gaps in commercial fishing operations…what group of people would you say the oyster boats are like?

There’s no correlation between commercial fishing and any social description. Seadrift is about 1/3 Hispanic 1/3 Caucasian 1/3 Vietnamese. The shrimpers and oyster guys are about the same percentage. Crabbers are mostly Vietnamese.

Most of us probably won't see another cowboys superbowl parade.

Seadrift isn't big, less than a thousand people. Since there's no beach or direct gulf access, it's far from what most consider a tourist mecca. Which is exactly why we live here.

There's some nice places and some not so nice places, they very well could be next door to each other. The real dumps were pretty much douched out by Harvey, so there is that.

But, when you drive around, you'll see a particular kind of house, red brick with immaculate landscaping, everything in beyond perfect order.

Those are all owned by crabbers. Every single one.