National Shrimp Festival

19 06, 2023

National Shrimp Festival

By |2023-08-01T17:46:14+00:00June 19th, 2023|Blog|0 Comments

Join us in Gulf Shores this fall to celebrate the annual National Shrimp Festival. The festival will take place October 12-15, 2023, and will boast a whopping 10,000 pounds of shrimp being prepared every day!  It may be the Shrimp Festival, but vendors will also be serving up crab cakes, lobster, Cajun pistols and other delicious, mouthwatering treats.   If the sound of all the delicious food isn’t enough to convince you to head out for the festival, the entertainment and [...]

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19 09, 2018

Fall beach festivities

By |2018-09-19T17:14:26+00:00September 19th, 2018|Blog|0 Comments

Summer is quickly fading and fall is just around the corner. That means it’s time to plan for all the exciting events that take place once the temperatures drop a little along the Alabama coast! One of the biggest activities of the fall is the annual National Shrimp Festival, set for Oct. 11-14 at the main beach in Gulf Shores. This is the 47th year for the event, which attracts 300,000 people each year, serves up thousands of pounds of [...]

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4 10, 2017

How to know you are buying Gulf seafood

By |2017-12-20T04:33:14+00:00October 4th, 2017|Blog|0 Comments

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 [...]

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