How to know you are buying Gulf seafood
With the 46th National Shrimp Festival coming up Oct. 12-15, it’s a good time to talk about the Alabama seafood industry. Shrimping in state waters became industrialized in the early 1800s when shrimp were preserved with ice and distributed throughout the state by train. Today, thousands of people are still involved in the process of catching, processing and transporting shrimp. Alabama seafood is now a $660 million industry involving the harvest of shrimp, blue crab, oysters and a variety of [...]